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 could have died from embarrassment.
What is a hyperbole?
200
What is the purpose of rhyme?
To link two ideas or set up an expectation
200
A four line poem or stanza.
What is a quatrain?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts.
What is soliloquy?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; ”
What is alliteration?
300
A five-line poem with the rhyme scheme: AABBA.
What is a limerick?
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
A type of poetic form that has three lines and 17 syllables total.
What is a haiku?
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 figurative language device used in the following quote? "As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.”
Onomatopoeia
500
A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past.
What is a ballad?
500
What is the mood created by this line: "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. "
What is cold?
500
Prose
What is any text not written in verse.
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