Figurative Language
Spot the Term
Structural Features
Types of poems
Poems characteristics
100

What is the figurative language being used? "She is a shining star!"

What is a metaphor?

100

A comparison without using like or as 

What is a metaphor?

100

In poetry, a stanza is similar to _________ which is always found in regular written text such as essays, articles, and books.

What is a paragraph?

100

An old silent pond
A frog jumps into the pond—
Splash! Silence again.

Haiku

100

Has 5 lines and is funny (to most people)

What is a limerick?

200

What is the figurative language being used? "Her smiles is as bright as the sun."

What is a simile?

200

An extreme exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

200

What does a title tell us about a poem?

topic or at times the main idea?

200

The sun goes down behind the hill,
The evening breeze is soft and still.
The little stars begin to peep,
As quiet woods drift off to sleep.

Rhymed Verse

200

Has 3 lines and 17 syllables.

What is a haiku?

300
What is the figurative language being used? "The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky"
What is personification?
300

A phrase that means something different than it says. 

What is an idiom?

300
Does all poetry have to rhyme?
What is no?
300

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”

limerick

300

Can be any length but must rhyme 

What is a rhymed verse? 

400

What type of figurative language is being used? "I have a thousands pages of homework tonight."

What is hyberbole?

400

A pattern of rhymes in lines in a poem

What is rhyme scheme?

400

In poetry, what do poets call what looks like sentences that are different lengths?

What are lines?

400

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Free Verse

400

Does not follow a regular rhyme scheme, fixed meter, or set pattern

What is a free verse?

500
What is the figurative language being used? "Candy's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos."
What is alliteration?
500

A comparision using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

500

The pattern of rhyming words in a poem

What is the rhyme scheme?

500

There once was a writer from Spain,
Who tried to write poems in vain.
They sat at the screen,
With a mind crisp and clean,
But only produced a refrain!

Limerick

500

Must have an AABBA rhyme scheme

What is a limerick?