Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Poets
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 or other piece of writing.
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 three line poem with a syllable pattern
What is a haiku?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
A poet famous for funny nonce words and outlandish illustrations.
Who is Theodore Geisel?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
"I'm so rumbly in my tumbly.”
What is internal rhyme?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
An African American poet famous for his work in the early 1900s.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
Paragraph or sentence writing.
What is end rhyme?
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 poem that tells a story in a songlike form.
What is a ballad?
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
A poem humorous five line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
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
What form of poetry is this? Why? A still spring morning Broken by the sound of the First bird that sings. Dawn.
What is a haiku?
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