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Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Structure
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
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

The structure or shape of a poem.

What is form?

200
A description of an object, animal, or an idea described as human or with human qualities.
What is personification?
200
A situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated.
What is irony?
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

The rhythmic structure of a poem?

What is meter?

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 or tone?

400
"Please put your pen away and play the piano."
What is alliteration?
400
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP, AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP."
What is repetition?
400
Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence.
What is an acrostic?
400
The message or lesson of a piece of literature.
What is theme?
400

One unit of rhythm.

What is a foot?

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

I LIKE to WALK aROUND the PARK. Iambic or trochee?

What is iambic?

500
A short rhyming poem with 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
500
Something that represents another thing.
What is a symbol?
500
The dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?