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Figurative Language
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Name That Poet!
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This is when you use a word that represent a sound. In other words, you give a word to a sound.
What is an Onomatopoeia?
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I am a three-lined poem with a precise pattern of syllables.
What is a Haiku?
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A grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually have a set pattern of meter and rhyme.
What is a Stanza?
100
An extreme exaggeration of the truth.
What is a hyperbole?
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This poet and author wrote "The Raven", and was known to be fairly odd.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
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To give human traits to an inanimate object or to an animal.
What is Personification?
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This type of poem creates a SHAPE from the text of the poem.
What is a Concrete Poem?
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Another name for a single line of poetry.
What is a Verse?
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Find the hyperbole within the following poem: I ate a spicy pepper From my brother on a dare The pepper caught my head on fire and burned off all my hair
What is "The pepper caught my head on fire"?
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This man is a popular poet with children and adults alike. He has written several anthologies of poems, including "Where the Sidewalk Ends". He also wrote many songs, including one that Johnny Cash made famous, entitled "A Boy Named Sue".
Who is Shel Silverstein?
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This is a person, place, or thing that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
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This type of poem has no set structure.
What is a Free Verse poem?
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This is a set of two lines used in poetry.
What is a Couplet?
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Where is the use of personification in this poem? "The shattered water made a misty din. 
 Great waves looked over others coming in" -Robert Frost
What is "Great waves looked over others coming in"?
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This poet is an American icon and a prolific writer. She was asked by Bill Clinton to read one of her poems, entitled "On the Pulse of Morning", at his Presidential Inauguration. She has also published many books and autobiographies, one of which is entitled "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings".
Who is Maya Angelou?
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What is the difference between a Simile and a Metaphor?
They are both comparisons, but a Simile compares two different things using the words "like" or "as", whereas a Metaphor does not.
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This is a long narrative poem dealing with a serious subject. The greek writer Homer wrote two of these, entitled "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey"
What is an Epic Poem?
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He wrote poems in Iambic Pentameter.
Who is William Shakespeare?
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Shakespeare wrote hundreds of this type of love poem in Iambic Pentameter.
What is a Sonnet
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Who wrote the following: 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.
Who is Robert Frost?
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This is the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration?
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Rhyming Poems need to have THIS in them...
What is Rhyming words?
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Poets use this technique to make the reader visualize things.
What is Imagery?
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Find the metaphor in this poem: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
 / Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
 / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
 / And summer's lease hath all too short a date / Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day Sonnet 18 
- William Shakespeare
What is a woman compared to a summer's day.
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This American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called "jazz poetry". He was also a significant leader during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?