Poetry... MY KNOWLEDGE OF THEE RUNNETH OVER
A poem that uses a vertically written word. Each line begins or ends with a letter from that vertically written word.
What is an Acrostic Poem?
This is a word that does not mean hungry or empty.
What is full?
A word that most nearly means quiet and starts with the letter "s" would be ____________.
silent
When someone says "It's raining cats and dogs!" what do they mean?
What is raining heavily?
In order for a criminal to avoid capture, he may have to ____________ the police.
What is elude?
A poem that has a specific rhyme scheme that flows throughout the work.
What is a Rhyming Poem?
A word that means the opposite of dark or darkness.
What is light?
A synonym for mollify is ___________.
What is soothe/Calm/Pacify?
If someone says, "I was completely in the dark about those plans." They mean ...
What is They didn't know or were unaware?
If I am jovial, one might say I am ___________.
What is happy or jolly?
This was a famous Poem written by Edgar Allan Poe about a black bird, a visitor, to his chamber who refused to leave.
What is The Raven?
Remember when...
What is forget/forgot?
When one takes their bread out of the toaster, it may be hot. One synonym for the word hot, that closely shares the name of the browned bread treat, would be this word.
Toasty
When someone says "Break a leg" they mean this....
If one has a great passion for a project or matter, this may be described as having _________.
What is zeal?
A poem that does not have a required rhyme scheme or structure would generally be identified as this type of poem...
What is a Free Verse Poem?
This word is not a synonym for cold.
What is warm/hot?
The water that falls from the sky on a cloudy day is known as precipitation in the meteorology world. The simplified synonym, or common name, is this word.
What is rain?
If someone were to steal your thunder, they might have done this to you...
What is taken attention away? or what is stole my idea?
If I was to say something was relevant, significant, and pertains to a specific matter, you might say this thing was _______________.
What is pertinent?
In a sonnet, there are 14 lines. The last two lines are called a couplet. The first twelve lines, arranged in three sets of four lines, are known by this name...
What is a quatrain?
A antonym is a word that has the _________ or _________ meaning as another word
What is opposite or almost opposite?
A synonym is a word that has the _________ or _________ meaning as another word.
What is same or similar?
Be careful how you bargain... If something costs an arm and a leg, what that really means is...
What is costs a lot of money?
An opinion formed from incomplete or false information may be called ____________ by some people.
What is conjecture?