Figurative Devices
Sound
Devices
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100
The soldiers are as brave as lions.
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.
What is stanza?
200
There were a billion people in line to see Kevin Hart!
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 lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises someone or something in particular.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude a poem implies. (Tone, Mood, or Theme)
What is tone?
200
Language that means something different than what it says.
What is figurative language?
300
Your voice is music to my ears!
What is a metaphor?
300
What sound device 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 assonance?
300
A poem with a fun and simple rhyming pattern that is made up of two lines.
What is a couplet?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem. (Tone, Mood, or Theme)
What is mood?
300
An idea or quality that a word makes you think about in order to imply its meaning.
What is connotation?
400
This place is like the Garden of Eden!
What is simile and allusion?
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
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
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
Every cloud has a silver lining.
What is idiom?
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 haiku is made up of three lines and is often about nature. How many syllables are in each line?
What is 5, 7, and 5?
500
What mood is present in the following line? "The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on."
What is calm/serene/peaceful?
500
What form of poetry is this? Why? The last winter leaves Clinging to the black branches Explode into birds
What is a haiku? It has three lines, is about nature, and has syllables 5, 7, and 5.
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