Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
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? (or idiom)
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 short poem in which the author expresses feelings and emotions.










What is a lyrical poem?
200
The attitude a poem implies. The writer's attitude or feeling toward a person, a thing, a place, an event or situation.









What is tone?
200
Words that have a very similar end sound
Used by a poet to create the feeling of a rhyme









What is near rhyme?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"










What is a metaphor?
300
What is the Rhyme Scheme?

Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her tuffet
eating her curds and wey
Along came a spider
Who sat down beside her
And scard Miss Muffet Away.



AABCCB
300
A poem that tells a story using literary devices.










What is a narrative?
300
The atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by the poem.










What is mood?
300
Where a line of poetry ends.










What is a line break?
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
There are 2 main forms of this type of poem.
The first has a verse with 8 lines and a verse with 6 lines.
The second type has 3 verses with 4 lines followed by 1 verse with 2 lines.








What is a sonnet?
400
What tone is implied by this statement?

GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!








What is anger/frustration?
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 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 where the first letters of each line form a word.










What is an acrostic poem?
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
Person telling the story (or poem)











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