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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100
Miguel ran as fast as the wind. What type of figurative language is being used?
What is a simile?
100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
100
The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

What type of poem structure is being used?

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
The car wizzed by me as I was exiting my car.
What is onomatopoeia
200
An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

Autumn moonlight--

a worm digs silently

into the chestnut.

In the twilight rain

these brilliant-hued hibiscus -

A lovely sunset.

What type of poem structure is being utilized?

What is an Haiku?
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
I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.  What type of figurative language is being used?
What is a metaphor?
300
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
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 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
Of withered leaves about your feet.  What type of figurative language is being used?
What is imagery?
500
Although sometimes you may fuss and fight,

And may not always agree,

In the dark, they are the light,

That shows the path so you can see.

What sound device is being used?

What is Rhyme?
500
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
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.