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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Poetic Device
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
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)

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 sentence continues over more than one line of poetry.

Enjambment

200

The attitude a poem implies.

Tone or mood

200

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

Imagery

300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What is the rhyme scheme? 


I was angry with my friend: 

 I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

 I was angry with my foe: 

 I told it not, my wrath did grow. 

 And I watered it in fears 

 Night and morning with my tears;

 And I sunned it with smiles, 

 And with soft deceitful wiles

AABBCCDD
300

Which poetic device is used here? 

 Water plops into pond splish-splash downhill warbling magpies in tree trilling, melodic thrill

Onomatopeia

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

Words that have the same ending sound

Rhyme

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

repetition
400

Which poetic device is used here? 

 I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Imagery

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?" 

What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?

500

He sank like the Titanic.

Hint: Not looking for simile 

What is Allusion?

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
Which poetic device is used here? It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
Hyperbole
500

What is the theme of this poem?


Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

Don't give up on your dreams
500

The person speaking in the poem, like the narrator in prose - not always the poet

Speaker