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Name that Sound Device!
Analyze It!
Types of Poems
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Terms
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"The snow fell softly on the silky winter scene." Name the sound device.
What is Alliteration
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What words rhyme in this poem and name this poem. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently , rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more."
What is, dreary, weary, napping, tapping, rapping, door, more. "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a "paragraph" of a poem.
What is a Stanza.
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"The sun smiled down on us on the warm summer day."
What is Personification.
100
Define: simile
Comparing 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”.
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"My mommy hung up a mummy as I filled my tummy with candy."
What is Consonance
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What word is reoccuring in this poem? The Toucan by Shel Silverstein Tell me who can Catch a toucan? Lou can. Just how few can Ride the toucan? Two can. What kind of goo can Stick you to the toucan? Glue can. Who can write some More about the toucan? You can!
What is can.
200
The autumn moonlight wispy breeze blows silently over the chestnut
What is a Haiku.
200
"The fireworks boomed and crackled in the air."
What is Onomatopoeia.
200
Define: Narrative Poem
A poem that tells a story.
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"The moon in June can cause people to swoon." Name that sound device.
What is Assonance
300
What am I... I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful ‚ The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
What is a mirror.
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The first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word. The word is the subject of the poem.
What is an Acrostic poem.
300
"Her hair was silk in the morning breeze."
What is a Metaphor.
300
Define: Tanka
A Japanese poem about nature that does/can use metaphors or similes. Syllables: 5,7,5,7,7= 31 syllables total
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"I watched with conceit, as the fleet of men came in upon the beat of the wave."
What is Assonance.
400
What is this poem talking about... Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, 5 I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
Would it be better to freeze to death, or burn to death.
400
Forms a picture of the topic or follows the shape that is suggested by the topic.
What is a concrete poem.
400
"Crunchy leaves layered the cold hard ground, as I walked slowly trying not to be found."
What is a couplet.
400
Define: Rhyme Scheme
The ordered pattern of rhymes.
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"Although all of the ants in the attic were scared, they alone were not."
What is Alliteration.
500
What is this poem about... Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. 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.
The speaker stands in the woods, considering a fork in the road. Both ways are equally worn and equally overlaid with un-trodden leaves. The speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other another day. Yet he knows it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to do so. And he admits that someday in the future he will recreate the scene with a slight twist: He will claim that he took the less-traveled road.
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A funny poem containing 5 lines. The last words of the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other (A) and the last words of the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other so the pattern is AABBA.
What is a limerick
500
The young couple sat on the cold bench alone together and watched to stars.
What is an Oxymoron.
500
Define the following: Alliteration/consonance, assonance
Alliteration: Repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of closely related Consonance: Repetition of consonant sounds. Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds.