Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
100
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
100
A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is the theme?
100
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph).
What is a stanza?
200
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
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 lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
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?"
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
300
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
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?
300
This type of Japanese poetry has 3 lines and is generally written about nature.
What is a haiku?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
This is an exaggeration used for a literary effect.
What is a hyperbole?
400
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.
What is personification?
400
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?
400
A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past.
What is a ballad?
400
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger or frustration?
400
This is a four-line poem that rhymes.
What is a quatrain?
500
The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words. Alliteration includes tongue twisters.
What is alliteration?
500
This pattern can be identified by giving end words that rhyme with each other the same letter.
What is a rhyme scheme?
500
This type of poem is a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.
What is a limerick?
500
This poet is known for a very dark and sad mood in his poems.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
500
This poem has 5 lines with a syllable pattern of 5,7,5,7,7.