Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Vocabulary
Famous Poets
Types of Poems
100
A type of figurative language that is known for using the words "like" and "as" to compare two things
What is a simile?
100
This sound device repeats consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words.
What is alliteration?
100
As sentences are to prose, _____ are to poetry.
What are lines?
100
Famous for writing sonnets and plays, this poet is was used for one of your first examples of traditional poetry
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
A poem that celebrates a person, place, or thing, usually in traditional form
What is an ode?
200
A type of figurative language that gives human-like characteristics to non-human things
What is personification?
200
This sound device repeats consonant sounds anywhere in a series of words.
What is consonance?
200
As paragraphs are to prose, _______ are to poetry.
What are stanzas?
200
Also known for his short, horror stories, this poet is most famous for his poem "The Raven."
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
200
A love poem that has fourteen lines. Shakespeare was famous for these.
What is a sonnet?
300
A type of figurative language that references something of historical or literary importance
What is allusion?
300
This sound device repeats vowel sounds anywhere in a series of words
What is assonance?
300
A pattern of rhyming in a poem
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
This poet wrote "Ode to My Socks."
Who is Pablo Neruda?
300
A spoken word poem that is performed in competitions
What is a slam poem?
400
"It's raining cats and dogs..."
What is an idiom?
400
"She sells sea shells by the sea shore..."
What is alliteration?
400
A poem that follows a set of rules
What is traditional?
400
This poet is more famous for writing novels written in poetry form; her books The Poet X and Clap When You Land are intimate stories about what it means to grow up Latina.
Who is Elizabeth Acevedo?
400
What is a concrete poem?
500
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..."
What is a metaphor?
500
"The rain fell hard on the plain in Spain..."
What is assonance?
500
Two lines that end in the same rhyme
What is a couplet?
500
This modern-day poet was a popular choice for the figurative language category this year; most of her works focus on the beauty of nature.
Who is Mary Oliver?
500
A long, narrative-style poem, usually about a hero of some kind.
What is an epic?