Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
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
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
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
3 lines long first line has 5 syllables second line has 7 syllables third line has 5 syllables
What is a Haiku?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
A poem where the words form what is being described
What is Concrete?
300
Expresses a meaning contradictory to the stated one
What is irony?
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.” Close Repetition of similar vowel sounds
What is assonance?
300
A poem in a regular metrical (beat) pattern designed to be sung
What is a song?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
emphasis is achieved by exaggerating. eg/ I was scared to death
What is a hyperbole?
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
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
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
the use of words whose sounds seem to express or reinforce their meanings.
What is Onamatopoeia?
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
a funny, short, rhyming poem that has a distinctive rhythm and rhyme pattern
What is a Limerick?
500
Beauty is simplicity Circle of life ...................are examples of?
What is theme
500
"All the world's a stage"
What is a Metaphor?