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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms and Parts of Poetry
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?
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 poem with rhyme - some might be sung and/or put to music.

What is a lyrical poem?

200

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?

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

The repetition of vowel sounds in words in a line or section of poetry.

What is assonance?

300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
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

Where a line of poetry ends.

What is a line break?

400

The snow covered the ground like a white blanket.

What is simile?

500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
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 group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)

What is a stanza?

500

Exaggeration used as a literary tool.

What is hyperbole?