Figurative Language
Guess the Poem
Guess the Poet
Types of Poems
100
When words in a sentence (not at the beginning of the word) share the same sound.
Ex: The light of a fire is a sight.
What is assonance?
100
Once there was a tree....
and she loved a little boy.
And everyday the boy would come
and he would gather her leaves
and make them into crowns
and play king of the forest.
He would climb up her trunk
and swing from her branches
and eat apples.
And they would play hide-and-go-seek.
And when he was tired,
he would sleep in her shade.
And the boy loved the tree....
very much.
And the tree was happy.
What is The Giving Tree?
100
Nothing Gold can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Who is Robert Frost?
100
A Japanese poem with three lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.
Ex: An ocean voyage
As waves break over the bow,
The sea welcomes me
What is a haiku?
200
A comparison using "like" or "as."
Ex: The game was as interesting as watching grass grow.
What is a simile?
200
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
What is The Road not Taken?
200
On the Pulse of Morning
A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no hiding place down here.
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
A Japanese poem that has 5 lines: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 7 syllables.
Ex: Pretty butterflies
Sitting on flower petals
Gathering nectar
Delicious and sweet the taste
Enjoying the summer day
What is a tanka?
300
Giving inanimate objects human traits and abilities.
Ex: The phone screamed.
What is personification?
300
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
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 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?
300
Ode to the Spoon
Spoon,
scoop
formed
by man’s
most ancient hand,
in your design
of metal or wood
we still see
the shape
of the first
palm
to which
water
imparted
coolness
and savage
blood,
the throb
of bonfires and the hunt.
Who is Pablo Neruda?
300
A five-line poem with an AABBA rhyming scheme.
Ex: There once 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 built their nests in my beard."
What is a limerick?
400
Words that sound similar to their actual noise/a sound affect.
Ex: Meow, woof, crackleWhat is an onomatopoeia?
400
What is M?
400
Why English is Hard to Learn
We'll begin with box; the plural is boxes;
But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes,
One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose is never called meese.
You can find a lone mouse or a house full of mice;
But the plural of house is houses not hice.
The plural of man is always men.
But the plural of pan is never pen.
If I speak of a foot, and you show me two feet,
And I give you a book, would a pair be a beek?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't two booths be called beeth?
If the singular's this and the plural is these,
Should the plural of kiss be ever called keese?
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
When the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him;
Just imagine the feminine....she, shis, and shim!
Who is James Donovan?
400
A poem where the first letters of each line spell out a word.
Ex:
Sledding down the
Long, steep hill past
Evergreens and lakes covered
In ice, a
Great mountain zooms by as the sled comes to a
Halt
What is an acrostic poem?
500
References to something that many people know such as fairy tales, mythology, etc.
Ex: His nose was growing. (Pinocchio)
What is an allusion?
500
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
What is Jabberwocky?
500
Homework, oh Homework
Homework! Oh, Homework!
I hate you! You stink!
I wish I could wash you away in the sink,
if only a bomb
would explode you to bits.
Homework! Oh, homework!
You're giving me fits.
I'd rather take baths
with a man-eating shark,
or wrestle a lion
alone in the dark,
eat spinach and liver,
pet ten porcupines,
than tackle the homework,
my teacher assigns.
Homework! Oh, homework!
you're last on my list,
I simple can't see
why you even exist,
if you just disappeared
it would tickle me pink.
Homework! Oh, homework!
I hate you! You stink!
Who is Jack Prelutsky?
500
A poem that celebrates a person or object.
What is an Ode to poem?