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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 comparison that is hinted at but not directly stated.

What is implied metaphor?

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

The use of descriptive words that appeal to the five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, sound).

What is imagery?

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

What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Stop beating around the bush and just tell me the bad news.”

What is an idiom?

300

A stanza with four lines.

What is Quatrain?

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

Words that almost rhyme but not perfectly (e.g., crumb / home).

What is a slant rhyme?

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: Try for 2 or 3 parts.

 "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? 

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 style is it called when you repeat a word or phrase at the beginning of lines (e.g., “When…”).

What is anaphora?

500

True friends are by your side

Through it all.

True friends are there

To catch you when you fall.

What is ABCB?

500

A poem written to someone or something that cannot respond.

What is Apostrophe (poetry).