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Name That Device!
Who Am I?
Pick Me Out of a Crowd!
Define Me!
Mystery!
100
"Poetry in a poorly painted house."
What is alliteration?
100
I was born in 1830 and wrote nearly 2000 poems.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
100
The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air – Between the Heaves of Storm –
What is simile?
100
Simile
What is a comparison between two dissimilar things using "like" or "as" ?
100
What is an example of onomatopoeia?
What is buzz, cluck, ring, crash, splash, bang, hiss, etc.
200
"Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a simile?
200
I am a female Canadian poet who wrote Songs of the Transformed.
Who is Margaret Atwood.
200
I enter your night like a darkened boat, a smuggler
What is simile?
200
Metaphor
What is a comparison between two dissimilar things where it is said that one thing IS the other.
200
Why might a poet use repetition?
What is to emphasize a word, phrase or line's importance or to create movement within a poem.
300
"All hands on deck!"
What is synecdoche?
300
I am a Canadian spoken word poet who wrote To This Day.
Who is Shane Koyczan.
300
And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down – And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing – then –
What is repetition?
300
Onomatopoeia.
What is the use of a word or words that imitate(s) or suggest(s) the sound it describes.
300
What is the difference between spoken word poetry and SLAM poetry?
What is SLAM poetry is a judged competition in which poets are awarded points.
400
"Life is a broken-winged bird."
What is metaphor?
400
I wrote the poem It's Just.
Who is Lakshmi Gill.
400
She’s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach.
What is personification?
400
Consonance.
What is the close repetition of consonant sounds before and after different vowel sounds (at the end or in the middle of words).
400
What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
What is the dictionary definition versus what is suggested beyond that.
500
"Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - "
What is personification?
500
I am a female spoken word poet who spoke at Ted Talks.
Who is Sarah Kay.
500
A harsh law bans all paragraphs that lack an A as a standard hallmark.
What is assonance.
500
Synecdoche.
What is a term for a part of something used to refer to its whole.
500
Name that rhyme scheme: So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
What is: a b c b