Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Mostly Shakespeare
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 meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
200
The last two lines in a Shakespearean sonnet are called this.
What is a couplet?
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? She sat with her cat and a hat.
What is assonance?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
Where is the "TURN" or change in theme in a Shakespearean sonnet?
At the couplet
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 a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
400
How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?
14
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
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 rhyme scheme 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 ABAAB?
500
weak strong syllable pattern used in Shakespearean sonnets. 5 sets of two beats each in one line. 10 beats per line.
What is iambic pentameter?
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