Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
100
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
100
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
100
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? I heard a bird sing/ In the dark of December./ A magical thing/ And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
200
This three lined poem originated in Japan
What is haiku?
200
The attitude of the author toward the topic.
What is tone?
200
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
What is cliche?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is personification or an extended metaphor?
300
These poems are typically longer, tell a story, are sung, and often written in quatrains.
What is a ballad?
300
The feeling or atmosphere created by a poem.
What is mood?
300
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a end stop/line break?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
This 17-syllable poem originated in Japan.
What is haiku?
400
The rhyme pattern for this poem is AABBA.
What is a limerick?
400
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
400
The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.
What is meter/rhyme?
500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
What is the rhyme scheme? Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/ And sorry I could not travel both/ And be one traveler, long I stood/ And looked down one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
500
A poem that is 14 lines long and ends with a couplet.
What is a sonnet?
500
The connotation of the word lazy is . . .
What is negative?
500
The test tomorrow is going to be a "piece of cake" is an example of?
What is an idiom?
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