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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Theme & Imagery
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

A funny poem of 5 lines believed to originate from Ireland. 

What is a limerick?

200

A vivid and vibrant form of description that appeals to readers' senses and imagination in a poem

What is imagery?

200

In "The Highwayman" the line "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed..." is an example of...

What is alliteration?

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
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300

The senses we use in imagery.

What is smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing?

300

The two last lines of a sonnet.

What is a couplet? 

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

The main difference between THEME and MAIN IDEA

What is theme is a universal lesson and main idea is what a story is about ?

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 naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it

What is onomatopoeia?

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 poem containing three elements: generally short, expresses extreme feelings, often sung or put to music, usually written in first person. HINT: It may have refrains (repeated stanzas)

What is lyric poetry?

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

In "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes, the line "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas" is an example of...

What is a metaphor?