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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 sound device is used in Valerie Worth's poem, "Crows"?

To jeer at / Winter's ruin / With their jubilant/ Thaw, thaw, thaw!

onomatopoeia

200

A narrative poem that is song-like. 

ballad

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

A pair of rhyming lines

What is a couplet?

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

What poetic technique is used in Douglas Florian's poem, "Winter Eyes"?

Breathe in winter / past winter nose: / The sweet scent of black birch / Where velvet moss grows

imagery and/or alliteration

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

4 lines of poetry that may contain a rhyme scheme.

What is a quatrain?

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 fine lines and is humorous.

What is a limerick?

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

Which sound device do you notice in "Bad Poem" by Douglas Florian?  

This poem is so bad / It belongs in the zoo / It should jump in a lake / Or come down with the flu

rhythm

500

A poetic form that is often about nature and has a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.

What is a haiku?

500
Name the connotation of  "hard" in the poem "Friendship" by Walter Dean Myers.


Turn away from hard and breakful eyes

What is negative?

500

Name the poetic form.

So many breezes

wander through my summer room:

but never enough

What is haiku?