Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Miscellaneous
Point of View
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

Define Point of View

The angle from which a story is told.

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 lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200

Poetry written in the first person uses these pronouns.

What is "I", "me" or "we"?

300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300

Poetry that uses "you" as a point of view, is written in this person.

What is second person?

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

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?

400

"...He wanted to help her down the stairs. Mrs. Smith ...was determined to do this on her own, to prove she wasn't a helpless old lady . . ." is an example of this point of view.

What is third person omniscient point of view?

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

The people along the sand 

All turn and look one way. 

They turn their back on the land. 

They look at the sea all day. 

As long as it takes to pass 

A ship keeps raising its hull; 

The wetter ground like glass 

Reflects a standing gull.

What is ABABCDCD?
500

"...The wind sings in its turnings, the water murmurs as it goes,..." is written from this point of view.

What is third person point of view?

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