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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
Poet's Language
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 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?
100

When the poet uses words that appeal to the reader's senses.

What is imagery?

200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200

Rain and Drain

What are Rhyming Words?

200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200

Who is the narrator of a poem?

Who is the speaker?

200

Bouquets of fragrant roses filled the room. What sense is the author appealing to?

What is the sense of smell?

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
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
300

The tree's bark was scratchy and rough. Which sense is the author appealing to?

What is the sense of touch?

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
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?
400

The zesty, robust smell of spaghetti wafted down the hall. Which sense is the author appealing to?

What is the sense of smell?

500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500

Boom! Pow! Crash!

What is onomatopoeia?

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
What form of poetry is this? Why?
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.
500

Why do author's use imagery in poetry?

What is in order to help the reader understand what something looks like, smells like, sounds like, tastes like, or feels like?