Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Poetry Puzzles
Literature Language
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 sound device is used in 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 Rhyme?
200
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
200
When you give human qualities to inanimate objects
What is personification?
200

Define these things: 

1st Person Point of View

2nd Person Point of View

3rd Person Omniscient Point of View

3rd Person Limited Point of View

...........

300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300

Connotation is....

The way a word creates an emotional response from the reader

300

This poem has fourteen-lines that usually has a set pattern of rhythm and rhyme

What is a Sonnet?

300
Words that appeal to the senses
What is imagery?
300

The author's word choice is...

What is diction?

400
When a text makes reference to a character in history, a book, a movie or a brand.
What is Allusion?
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
When the beginning sound of a word is repeated
What is alliteration?
400
I am so hungry I could eat a horse. This is an example of what literary device
What is hyperbole?
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 sound device is used in this passage? A rose grows where the bones of the crow are thrown
What is Assonance?
500

This poem has three lines, a pattern of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and has imagery of nature or everyday life.  

Haiku 

500

If a poem has meter, it has....

a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. 

500
The person or think that provides the point of view in a text or poem. The voice of the poem or text.
Who is the speaker?
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