Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile
What poetic device is being used below?
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration
A type of pome with no constraints, and is the most common type of poetry we know.
What is lyrical poetry
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza
What poetic device is being used below?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole
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
A form of poetry that has the following syllables 5-7-5?
What is a haiku
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone
What is it called when two consecutive lines rhyme?
What is a rhyming couplet
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor
What poetic device is used in this quote?
“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,”
--Langston Hughes
What is alliteration
A poem that tells a story.
What is a ballad
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood
What is the following an example of: Jumbo Shrimp
What is an oxymoron
What poetic device is being used below?
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification
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?
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet
What tone is implied by this statement?
GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration
Identify one example of personification from the excerpt below:
"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?
What poetic device is being used below?
“The moan of doves in immemorial elms;
And murmuring of innumerable bees.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
What is onomatopoeia
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?
What is a biopoem
What mood is exemplified in the following quote:
“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”
What is calm, serene, peaceful
What is this an example of:
Neptune is the god of the sea
What is a metaphor