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Figurative Language
What type of poem?
100

Has the structure of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables

What is a haiku?

100
Love is lime-green like two pickles squeaking together. What sense does this line appeal to?
What is sound?
100
Giving non-living things or animals human qualities. Ex. The light danced to Earth
What is personification?
100

Buzz

Pop

Crack

What is a onomatopoeia? 

100

The North Pole is bustle and noise
As Santa and those he employs,
Prepare for the day
By loading the sleigh
With gifts for the good girls and boys.

What is a limerick?

200

A paragraph in a poem

What is a stanza?

200
I opened the bedroom door and was overwhelmed by the thought of a basketball players socks that has been worn for a week without being washed. This appeals to what sense?
What is smell?
200
Comparing two things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
Crazy Corbin caught five freaky fish Friday with wild William.
What is alliteration?
200

An old silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond—

Splash! Silence again.

What is a haiku?

300

"I have the measles and the mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps." What poetry element does this poem have?

What is rhyme?

300
The vibrant rainbow glistened as it cascaded from the bright blue sky to the emerald green grass below. What sense does this line appeal to?
What is sight?
300

Over exaggeration for effect

What is hyperbole?

300

Hit the lights

What is an idiom?
300

And then the day came,

when the risk

to remain tight

in a bud

was more painful

than the risk

it took

to blossom.

What is a free verse poem?

400

Does not have a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form

What is a free verse poem?

400
The cats fur was like a soft cotton blanket that was worn, but was fluffy and velvety. What sense does this line appeal to?
What is touch?
400

A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as"

What is a simile?
400

The chair sat there waiting for me to sit down. What poetry element is shown in this sentence?

What is personification?
400

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.

What is a rhyming poem?

500

This type of poem has a single stanza with 5 lines, Consist of a single stanza. Follows AABBA Rhyme scheme.

What is a limerick?

500
Bang! Boom! Zoom! The cars sped by cracking the air as they passed by. What sense does this line appeal to?
What is sound?
500

A phrase that has a literal and figurative meaning.

What is an idiom?

500

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get.

What is a simile?

500

Princess Eva waited so long.

She wondered if the fairy had been wrong.

Trapped in the castle was she.

How could this be?

The witch cackled he'll never come.

That prince is a bum.

Princess Eva just sighed sadly.

Maybe she didn't want this so badly.

Looking out the window.

She was tired of being in limbo.

When the witch went to sleep

The princess decided to creep

Right down the stairs.

"Who cares?" She thought with a smile.

"I'm leaving this castle, princess style."

"Who needs a prince?" thought she.

I've just got to rely on me.

What is a narrative poem?