The Highwayman
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Name that Device
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Random
100
Poet who wrote the Highwayman
Who is Alfred Noyes?
100
Poet who wrote this one...
Who is Robert Service?
100
Ka-Boom!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
He wrote the song...
Who is Gordon Lightfoot?
100
A poem with a distinctly narrative style that tells a story, such as the Highwayman
What is a ballad?
200
Tim the Ostler held this job
What is a stable boy?
200
Where Sam McGee came from (Where the cotton blooms and blows)
What is Tennessee?
200
"my love is like a red, red rose"
What is simile?
200
The wreck took place on this Lake
What is Superior?
200
Name the poetic device: "The stars came out and danced about"
What is personification?
300
Name the poetic device: "over the cobbles he clattered and clashed"
What is alliteration?
300
The geographic setting of the poem
What is the Yukon?
300
"The road was a ribbon of moonlight"
What is metaphor?
300
Number of the ship's crew survived this disaster?
What is zero?
300
British poet who wrote "Gunga Din"
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
400
The name of the Landlord's daughter?
What is Bess?
400
The collection of poems in which this one was published
What is Songs of a Sourdough?
400
"There's a little black train a comin', comin' down the track, you gotta ride that little black train, but it ain't gonna bring you back"
What is symbolism?
400
The Chippewa term for the lake on which this disaster took place
What is Gitche Gumee?
400
Name the poetic device: "The shot heard 'Round the world"
What is Hyperbole?
500
They end up dead in this poem
Who are the Highwayman and Bess?
500
Complete the line "A promise made is.."
"A debt unpaid"
500
"Then leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief"
What is allusion?
500
The month in which the disaster happened
What is November?
500
Name the poetic device: "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain"
What is alliteration?
M
e
n
u