"Figure" it out
Which type of Figurative Language / Poetic Device is being used?
Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams, and smokes the ceiling beams.
Onomatopoeia
How many stanzas in the following poem?
Who wants a pancake,
Sweet and piping hot?
Good little Grace looks up and says,
“I’ll take the one on top.”
Who else wants a pancake,
Fresh off the griddle?
Terrible Theresa smiles and says,
“I’ll take the one in the middle.”
2 stanzas
Oh the weather outside is frightful, ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (5 words)
but inside it's so delightful
“Crack crack crack, ugly stupid mice, we'll beat them blue and black, we'll squash them all like lice, crack crack crack.”
This is a line from which Christmas poem?
The Nutcracker
Which fairy tale served as an inspiration for the first gingerbread houses?
Hansel and Gretel
Which type(s) of Figurative Language / Poetic Device is being used?
I do not care to talk to you although / your speech evokes a thousand sympathies, /
Hyperbole
How many verses in the following poem?
I made myself a snowball
As perfect as could be.
I thought I’d keep it as a pet
And let it sleep with me.
I made it some pajamas
And a pillow for its head.
Then last night it ran away,
But first—it wet the bed.
8 verses
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year, ____ ____ ____ ____ ____,
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (11 words)
to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
This is a line from which famous story (which has lots of Figurative Language!)
What are the first words Frosty says when he wakes up from the magic hat in the animated classic movie?
Happy Birthday
Which type(s) of Figurative Language / Poetic Device is being used?
The leaves are little yellow fish / swimming in the river.
Metaphor
How many line breaks in the following poem?
I remember I put on my socks,
I remember I put on my shoes.
I remember I put on my tie
That was printed
In beautiful purples and blues.
I remember I put on my coat,
To look perfectly grand at the dance,
Yet I feel there is something
I may have forgot—
What is it? What is it?...
9 line breaks
I'll have a blue Christmas without you. I'll be ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (6 words)
so blue just thinking about you.
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season. Now please don't ask why. No ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (5 words)
one quite knows the reason.
In which country did candy canes originate?
Germany
Which type of Figurative Language / Poetic Device is being used?
When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears, /
Personification
Which type of stanza?
Underneath my outside face
There’s a face that none can see.
A little less smiley,
A little less sure,
But a whole lot more like me.
Cinquain
Grandma got run over by a reindeer, ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (7 words)
coming/walking home from our house Christmas Eve.
This author of "The Road Not Taken" also wrote a poem entitled, "Christmas Trees". Name the author.
Robert Frost
In the song "Twelve Days of Christmas," what is given on the seventh day?
Swans a swimming
Which type(s) of Figurative Language / Poetic Device is being used?
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, /
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, /
Alliteration and Metaphor
Which type of stanza?
Her mama said, “Don’t eat with your fingers.”
“OK,” said Ridiculous Rose,
So she ate with her toes.
Tercet
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away.
Jingle bell time is a swell time,
____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ - ____ ____ (8 words)
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.
that St. Nicholas soon would be there
In which year between 1910-1940 was the first Christmas tree lit up in the Rockefeller Center?
1933