Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Poetry Form & Structure
Shakespeare & Stuff
Miscellaneous
100
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Primary figure of speech used in these lines: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is alliteration?
100
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
100
The number of syllables in a line of iambic pentameter?
What is ten?
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 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 line of poetry that ends with some form of punctuation.
What is an end stopped line?
200
The general message or idea being conveyed.
What is theme?
200
When what is said is the opposite of what is meant.
What is verbal irony?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
The figurative language tool used in this poem. “As the waves crashed against the shore, / And the gulls circled overhead, / I wondered where the ocean goes / As it rushes away." /
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A line of poetry which carries over from one line into the next in both a logical and grammatical sense.
What is a run-on line?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
When the opposite of what we expect occurs.
What is situational irony?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
The tool used to created emphasis in the lines below. 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
Three line poem with a specific syllable count per line: 5, 7 & 5
What is a haiku?
400
In a Shakespeare play, it is when a character steps away from the other characters on stage to speak directly to the audience.
What is an aside?
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
The figure of speech used in the following lines of poetry: Tree branches / glisten white / Pillows of snow / Sun reflecting / tiny crystals of light.
What is imagery?
500
The rhyme scheme used in the following stanza: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveller, long I stood / And looked down one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; /
What is ABAAB?
500
When the words in a poem take the shape of on object; this object is usually the subject or theme of the poem
What is a concrete poem?
500
In a Shakespearean play, it is when a character speaks alone on stage.
What is soliloquy?
500
When the audience is aware of something that the characters do not know
What is dramatic irony?
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