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
A poem that takes the shape of the object it is describing.
What is a concrete poetry?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
The use of words or phrases that appeal to the reader's five senses.
What is imagery?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language device is used in this quote? “Poets make pretty pets of popular words”
What is alliteration?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
What is repetition?
400
What kind of poem is this: There once was a man from Peru Who lived in a crappy old shoe. He had nothing to eat. But some crummy old meat. And nasty black tea he would brew.
What is a limerick?
400
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
400
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
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
Japanese poetry that consists of 3 lines with a 5-7-5 syllable count.
What is a haiku?
500
What is the theme of this passage: 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 "choose your own way; don't follow the crowd"?
500
Language that mimicks the sound it creates (e.g. Bang! Crash! Smack!)
What is onomatopoeia
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