A type of poetry with no rhyming, line or syllable pattern.
What is free verse?
100
The opposite of figurative language
What is literal?
100
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
What is a limerick?
100
Allie’s cell phone dropped into the toilet like a falling star.
What is simile?
100
A group of lines together in poetry (sometimes called the paragraph of poetry).
What is a stanza?
200
A five-line poem which is usually humorous, and which follows an AABBA rhyming pattern.
What is a limerick?
200
When something non-human is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
Green and speckled legs,
Hop on logs and lily pads
Splash in cool water.
What is a haiku?
200
Repetition of a consonant sound within a word. For example:
black rock
What is consonance?
200
Her eyes were fireflies.
What is a metaphor?
300
A five-line poem that follows a 2-4-6-8-2 syllable pattern.
What is a cinquain?
300
An expression which means something different from what the words actually say, such as "let the cat out of the bag"
What is an idiom?
300
Fog by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
What is free verse?
300
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
This is an example of what structure?
What is a couplet?
300
A flag used to represent the U.S. is an example of this.
What is symbolism?
400
A three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, often written about nature or the seasons.
What is a haiku?
400
A comparison between two different things, using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
400
Watermelon
Juicy, sweet
Dripping, slurping, smacking
So messy to eat
Fruit
What is a cinquain?
400
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
What is AABA
400
Repetition of a vowel sound within a word.
Shy Mike likes bikes.
What is assonance?
500
A poem which consists of all the elements of plot.
What is a narrative?
500
A word which imitates the sound it makes.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
This is an example of which figurative language?
Peter Piper ran proudly through Panama.
What is a alliteration?
500
An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says.
Ex: I couldn't make a decision, so I sat on the fence.
What is an idiom?
500
figurative language meant to appeal to the senses, especially visually.