A form of poetry without any kind of distinguishable 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 or story.
What is theme?
100
Sounds indicate meaning...
onomatopoeia
200
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed
idioms
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...
I heard a bird sing
ABABA
200
5-7-5-7-7
Japanese Tanka
200
Verbal irony + mockery = __________
sarcasm
200
to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
imagery
300
The wildfire ran through the forest at an amazing speed.
What is personification?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote?
“Poetry is putrid, poor, paltry at best."
What is alliteration?
300
A poem that tells a story. This is ALSO a style of writing that often tells a personal story.
Narrative
300
A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.
situational irony
300
What is this an example of:
Hungry Hal could eat a horse!
(2 answers)
hyperbole, alliteration
400
freezer burn
oxymoron
400
What type of poem is this an example of? (rhyming is not the literal answer)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/
All the King's horses and all the King's men/
Watched the egg take a vicious fall/
And couldn't put Humpty together again/
What is quatrain?
400
What type of poem is this?
Haiku
400
What type of figurative language is this AND explain it's meaning: It's written all over your face
idiom; everyone can tell how you are feeling based on how you are looking
400
Explain
500
extraordinary and bizarre
connotation
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
What is a rhyming couplet?
a pair of rhyming lines with a complete thought
500
What is this an example of? (3 answers)
They are as quiet as a massive cat fight.
-hyperbole
-verbal irony or sarcasm
-simile
500
Identify the personification:
"And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?"