Syllables, Lines, Stanzas
Rhyme Scheme
Sim, Met, Per, Hyp
Allit, Asson, Onomato
Grab Bag
100

Goudy Technology Academy has this many syllables.

What is 10.

100

The rhyme scheme of this poem: Ms. Tamras and Ms. Oehlsen know / that over summer boys will grow. / They'll leave 6th grade with voices high / but in the fall have voices low.

What is AABA?

100

Seline is as quiet as a ninja.

What is simile?

100

The door creaked shut.

What is onomatopoeia?

100

The rhyme scheme of this poem: You can hear him swing his heavy sledge / With measured beat and slow, / He walks out to the dark green hedge / When the evening sun is low.

What is ABAB?

200

This poem has 3 lines and is usually about nature. It has: / 5 syllables / 7 syllables / 5 syllables /

What is a haiku?

200

I do not like them in a house / I do not like them with a mouse / I do not like them here or there. / I do not like them anywhere. / I do not like green eggs and ham. / I do not like them, Sam-I-am!

What is AABBCC?

200

I'm going to die of boredom.

What is hyperbole?

200

The boy lifted the great weight of hay by the bay.

What is assonance? (great weight hay bay)

200

Today's donations are just a drop in the bucket. We need a lot more money!

What is idiom?

300

This poem has how many lines?

The heavens scowled / and the huskies howled / and the wind began to blow.

What is 3 lines?

300

What we call a poem that doesn't rhyme and has no set number of syllables or lines.

What is free verse?

300

School is a factory that manufactures smart kids.

What is metaphor?

300

Ben went again to send a letter to his friend.

What is assonance?

300

This is a main idea or lesson taught by a story or poem.

What is theme?

400

This is another word for line.

What is verse?

400

Andy, Brandon, Ronald went / to the store to buy some shoes. / They looked at all the money spent / then changed their minds and went to choose / another type of clothing that / they all could share: They bought a hat.

What is ABACC

400

The sunflowers showed their cheerful faces to the sun.

What is personification?

400

Mahmoud, Mudassir, and Mathew made mountains of money selling marshmallows.

What is alliteration?

400

The point in a story or poem when the characters usually are struggling with the biggest problems. (The most exciting part.)

What is the climax?

500

How many stanzas is a poem required to have?

What is no set number?

500

This is the rhyme scheme of this poem: It's the cursed cold / and it's got right hold / til I'm chilled clean through to the bone.

What is AAB?

500

This line shows these two types of figurative language: The hot sand was a lake of fire that separated the barefoot kids from the cold, blue water.

What is metaphor and hyperbole?

500

Kate likes to curl up on the couch to color her copies of killer whales.

What is alliteration?

500

This line shows this type of rhyme: The heavens scowled and the huskies howled.

What is internal rhyme?

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