Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Characteristics of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100

His smile is my kryptonite. 

What is an allusion?

100

How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour

What is onomatopoeia?

100

A form of poetry without a clear pattern. 

What is free verse?

100

The underlying message.

What is theme?

100
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse


What is a stanza?

200

These shoes are killing my feet. 

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 condensed use of vivid and descriptive words chosen for their sound and meaning.

What is a poem?

200

Generally determined through description or dialogue.

What is tone?

200

This type of literature can be considered less of a form, and more of a concept."

What is poetry?

300

On Friday nights, I am a night owl.

What is a metaphor?

300

 “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

The arrangement of words, lines, verses, rhymes, and other features in a poem.

What is form, structure, or stanza?

300

The creation of an emotion or feeling through words.

What is mood?

300

The heartbeat of a sonnet.

What is a iambic pentameter?

400

"As a great elm wallows before the storm, the woman heaves"

What is a simile?

400

What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? "That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." 

What is repetition?

400

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,

What is a sonnet?

400

They are both created with emotion, rhythm, and expression.  

What is poetry and music?

400

Identify 3 instances of 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?" 

What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?

500

"Actions speak louder than words."

What is an idiom?

500

But blessed forms in whistling storms
Fly o’er waste fens and windy fields.

What is alliteration?

500

A pattern created with sounds: hard - soft, long - short, bouncy, quiet - loud, weak - strong

What is rhythm?

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

The first thing you must do is have no fear. The second thing is to is read the title.  

How do you read a poem?  

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