Is the following statement figurative language? If so, what type?
"It's raining cats and dogs."
Idiom
100
What type of sound device is: Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
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
Is the following statement figurative language? If so, what type?
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!"
What is a hyperbole?
200
Which two of the following words make an exact rhyme?
break, braid, hate, ache, breakfast, beak, brain, heat
break and ache
200
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
"The clouds cried in sorrow" is an example of what type of figurative language.
Personification
300
Is the following statement figurative language? If so, what type?
"It's raining heavily today."
No, this can be taken literally, and is not figurative language.
300
Which sense does the following imagery appeal to most?
"The wind howled and hissed."
Sound or hearing.
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
"Down he dove into the dreary dismal dungeon." Is an example of what sound device?
Alliteration
400
Is the following statement figurative language? If so, what type?
I’ll be there as long as you need me.
No, nothing is being compared with the "as" and it can be taken literally.
400
Which two senses does the following imagery appeal to the most?
"The thick fog smothered the little homes."
Sight and touch.
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
Finish this sentence: While a simile states that one thing is "like" another, a metaphor states that _________ ________ ________ ____________________________.
... one thing is another.
500
Which of the following are sound devices used in poetry?
onomatopoeia, repetition, imagery, rhyme, meter, alliteration, rhythm, and imagery
Onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme, meter, alliteration, and rhythm.
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
What form of poetry is this? Why?
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.