Poetry
Literal vs Nonliteral
Poetic Devices
Vocabulary
100

What are the groupings of lines in a poem called?

What is Stanzas?

100

A type of language that involves something that could actually happen.

What is Literal Language?

100

Which poetic device is used in the following sentence:

The clock was tick-tocking on the wall.

What is onomatopoeia?

100

Which vocabulary word means to spread around?

What is scatter?

200

Which type of poetry is written in lines and stanzas and has rhyming words and a rhyme scheme?

What is Rhyming Poems?

200

A type of language that involves something that could not logically happen.

What is nonliteral language?

200

Which poetic device is used in the following sentence: Stormy stratus clouds spread across the summer sky.

What is alliteration?

200

Which vocabulary word means to be certain or sure of something?

What is confidence?

300

Which type of poetry is written in lines and stanzas and sounds more like the author is talking to the reader?

What is free verse?

300

Name the poetic device used in the following sentence: Time is a thief.

What is metaphor?

300

Which vocabulary word means something that is not a fact?

What is opinion?

400

What type of poetry consists of 17 total syllables, with each line divided into 5, 7, 5 syllables each?

What is haiku?
400

Which poetic device repeats words at the beginning of a line?

What is anaphora?

400

Which vocabulary word means to be serious and determined?

What is resolute?

500

What kind of rhyme scheme do the following lines use?

Mary had a little lamb,

Its fleece was white as snow,

And every where that Mary went

The lamb was sure to go

What is ABCB?

500

Which poetic device is used in this sentence: It was raining cats and dogs.

What is hyperbole?

500

Which vocabulary word means a long and difficult journey?

What is trek?