Poetic Devices
Rhymes/Sounds
Types of Poetry
7th Grade Poems
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
The name of the monster in Lewis Carrol's poem with many made up words.
What is the Jabberwocky?
100
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
200
Her anger was a burning fire.
What is a metaphor?
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 long narrative poem about the adventures of heroes/legendary figures.
What is an epic?
200
The three things that were taken from Norman in "The Demon of the Gibbet."
What are his cloak, his wine, and his wife?
200
The first king of Israel
Who is Saul?
300
The ball WHIZZED by his head at the baseball game.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A poem that tells a story and often has a chorus.
What is a ballad?
300
The little boy in "Oranges" bought this for the girl he was walking with.
What is chocolate?
300
The number of total volleyball players on a court.
What is twelve?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
End words that share a sound
What is end rhyme?
400
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
400
Rebecca did this for fun, and she died.
What is slamming doors?
400
This book contains the characters of Wilbur, Templeton, and Charlotte.
What is Charlotte's Web?
500
A person, place, event, or object that has a meaning in itself but suggests a deeper meaning as well
What is a symbol?
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 stanza of four lines that has rhymes in a pattern.
What is a quatrain?
500
The girl who would not take the garbage out.
Who is Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout?
500
The longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon?
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