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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
What does it mean
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
100

Shades of gray surround my eyes, No color in my life- Oh how I try Rain clouds above my head I just want to stay in bed

What is sadness?

100
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
100

A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)

What is stanza?

200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
200

The lightning and thunder They go and come; But the stars and the stillness Are always at home.

What is home is safe and calm?

200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200

A group of words arranged into a row. 

What is a line? 

300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
300

At the Seaside ~Robert Louis Stevenson 

When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup, In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more.

What is digging in the sand at the beach?

300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300

Where a line of poetry ends.

What is a line break?

400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400

What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

What is repetition?

400

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

What is a love that was so intense that the angels in heaven felt envious?

400

What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!

What is anger/frustration?

400

Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart

What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?

500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
What is the rhyme scheme? 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;
What is ABAAB?
500

Bess, the landlord’s daughter, 

Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

What is a love-knit being a symbol of her faithfulness?

500
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage: 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;
What is ABAAB?
500

Who is the best RLA teacher?

Trick question. It’s all of the 7th grade RLA teachers. ;)