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Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Structure
Vocabulary
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100
"The cotton candy looked like a pink cloud."
What is a simile?
100
"Bang, woof, pow!"
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A group of lines in a poem?
What is a stanza?
100
A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
100
A single row of words in a poem.
What is a line?
200
"Friends are chocolate chips in the cookie of life."
What is a metaphor?
200
"Betty Botter bought some butter."
What is alliteration?
200

What MUST a haiku have?

3 lines; the first line having 5 syllables, the second having 7, the third having 5

200
A description of an object, animal, or an idea described as human or with human qualities.
What is personification?
200

Give an example of hyperbole.

answers vary

300
"The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet."
What is imagery?
300

Determine the rhyme scheme: "They put me in the oven to bake. Me a deprived and miserable cake. Feeling the heat I started to bubble. Watching the others I knew I was in trouble.”

What is AABB?

300

Do all poems have to follow the same rhyme scheme?

NO!!

300

The repetition of accented vowel sounds, as in thing and sing.

What is rhyme?

300
The feeling the poet is trying to convey, the 'atmosphere' of the poem.
What is mood?
400
"Please put your pen away and play the piano."
What is alliteration?
400

What is alliteration?

The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.

400

True/False: Colors can be added into poetic language to mean something else.

True!!

400
The message or lesson of a piece of literature.
What is theme?
400

Give an example of a simile.

answers vary

500
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
What is a hyperbole?
500

Determine the RHYTHM pattern: 

"They put me in the oven to bake. Me a deprived and miserable cake. Feeling the heat I started to bubble. Watching the others I knew I was in trouble.”

9, 9, 10, 12

500

In Freedom's Standard below, what does the image of the flag represent?


God bless our star gemmed banner;
Shake its folds out to the breeze;
From church from fort from housetop,
Over the city on the seas;

freedom

500
Something that represents another thing.
What is a symbol?
500

What is a couplet?

Back to back lines of poetry that rhyme.