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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
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?
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 poem that is typically about feelings and moods. This type normally has rhyming words.
What is a lyrical poem?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
The author of a poem.
What is a poet?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
Rhyme that occurs within one line?
What is internal rhyme?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a 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 two successive, rhyming lines?
What is a couplet?
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
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
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
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past.
What is a ballad?
500
The mood this poem creates: 

I loved my friend./He went away from me./There's nothing more to say./The poem ends, / Soft as it began - / I loved my friend.

What is nostalgia or sadness?
500
A part of a word that makes a single sound
What is a syllable?