The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
What is alliteration?
100
The spoon danced across his plate.
What is personification?
100
Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee; she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
(more lines follow)
What is a sonnet?
100
Identify the rhyme scheme:
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there’s some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
What is AABA?
100
A Japanese poem that usually describes a season or nature.
What is a haiku?
200
A host of golden daffodils.
What is assonance?
200
The sun is a shining diamond in the sky.
What is a metaphor?
200
It’s realized – Santa’s worst fear;
The reindeer are striking this year.
Fatigue was a factor,
So he bought a tractor,
For nothing can run like a Deere.
What is a limerick?
200
Identify the rhyming scheme:
O, my love’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O, my love’s like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
What is ABCB?
200
Hello, how are you? I'm Nick,
Here to teach you a fun little trick,
To have a good time,
When writing a rhyme,
Try writing your own ________.
What is limerick?
300
All's well that ends well.
What is consonance?
300
I exhausted; it is time to hit the hay.
What is an idiom?
300
The wind blew very strong;
As we scurried along
What is a couplet?
300
Identify the rhyme scheme:
The worried efforts of the busy heap,
The dirt, the imprecision, and the beer
Produce a few smart wisecracks every year;
Laugh if you can, but you will have to leap.
What is ABBA?
300
Stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is rhythm?
400
The door shut with a slam.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
That book was so easy to read; it took me about 3 seconds to finish.
What is an understatement?
400
Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.
What is haiku?
400
Identify the rhyme scheme:
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!-then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
What is ABABCC?
400
How many syllables are in a haiku?
What is 17?
500
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells,
Of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells—
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
What is repetition?
500
ROMEO: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
What is a metaphor?
500
Lightning flash—
what I thought were faces
are plumes of pampas grass.
What is a haiku?
500
Identify the rhyme scheme:
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
What is ABABCB?
500
In "Beauty and the Beast" "the clock said to Belle..." is an example of this poetic device.