Poetic Terms
Figuratively Speaking
Miscellaneousness
Words Words and More Words
Yes, I paid attention.
100
It's the life lesson of a poem.
What is theme?
100
It's the three types of author's purpose.
What is to inform, to persuade and to entertain?
100
If you don't understand a word, you better use this!
What is a dictionary?
100
It's a high place where you find a bird's nest.
What is an eyrie?
100
It's the name of the first epic poem we read.
What is "Song of Hiawatha"?
200
It's what we call the paragraphs of a poem.
What is stanza?
200
If a word or phrase appears more than once in a poem, it's called this.
What is repetition?
200
It's a type of joke that Mr. Goen loves.
What is a pun?
200
It's a duck stuffed into a chicken, stuffed into a turkey.
What is turducken?
200
Our first three poems shared this theme.
What is how to be a man?
300
It's the name we use for sound effects in poetry.
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
It's when you compare without using like or as.
What is a metaphor.
300
When taking the test, be sure to use this to mark the text!
What is a highlighter?
300
If something lacks congruity it is this.
What is incongruit?
300
Langston Hugh's poem was about this.
What is The Civil Rights movement?
400
It's a long poem that tells a story.
What is an epic poem?
400
When the waves were compared to a dog, it gave the ocean life like qualities. What is that called?
What is personification?
400
It's the website where you find the word of the day.
What is Merriam-Webster.com?
400
It's to be indifferent to pleasure or pain.
What is stoic?
400
It was a major theme of "The Highwayman".
What is sacrifice for love?
500
When the author gives clues of what is coming.
What is foreshadowing?
500
If you compare using like or as it's this.
What is simile?
500
When something unexpected happens in a story, it's called this.
What is irony?
500
Similar to crowdsourcing, this is when you get groups of people online to give you money to support your cause.
What is crowdfunding?
500
In "The Sea", the author compares the sea to a dog for this reason.
What is so the reader can relate to what the ocean might be like?
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