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

Extravagant Exaggeration 

What is a hyperbole? 

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

Double, double, toil and trouble; 

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Rhyming Couplet

200

Poetry often about nature. Is typically short and focuses on a certain quantity of syllables used. 

What is a Haiku?

200
When you give human qualities to inanimate objects
What is personification?
200

Crack! The branch gives way,
Leaves whisper down to the earth—
Autumn sighs goodbye.

What type of poem is this? What literary device is present? (Need both)

Haiku and Personification/Onomatopoeia 

300
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
300

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?

300
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
300
Words that appeal to the senses
What is imagery?
300

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

A pair on contrary terms in a single expression

Oxymoron

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

It's hotter than the sun outside. This is an example of what literary device

What is hyperbole?

400

When a text makes reference to a character in history or mythology.

What is Allusion?

500

the assignment of something to a time when it was not in existence.

Anachronism

500

ABBABB 

What is Rhyme Scheme?

500

War is dangerous is what? 

What is an understatement?

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 type of figurative device is in this excerpt?: 

The brightest light cast darkest shade,
The kindest cuts were sharpest made.
He stood for truth, yet masked his face,

Antithesis 

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