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Figurative Language
Rhyme Schemes/Literary Devices
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? (Also known as Spoken Word or Slam Poetry)

100

The author's message 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 million burgers!

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 lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts.
What is soliloquy?
300

Comparing two things in an absolute way, 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 feeling the reader/listener feels while reading/hearing the poem.

What is mood?

300
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
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

Make like a tree and leave!

What is a pun?

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 Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in lines of 3, 5, and 3 words each. These poems often discuss nature.

What is a haiku?

500

To him, she was rain

To her, he was sunshine

Together, they made rain

What is the THEME of this poem?

They complement one another, are made for each other, go well together, etc.

500

Drizzling or pouring

Watering garden veggies

Dripping down gutters

What is the TOPIC of this haiku?



What is RAIN?