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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100

She's as fast as a cheetah!

What is a simile?

100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
100

A poem that gives inanimate objects human characteristics

What is a Personification poem?

100

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

The wind chilled me to the bone as my teeth chattered - my breath swirling in the air. 

What is a imagery?

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 form of poetry with made-up words, alliteration, and silly rhymes

What is a Nonsense poem?

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

Vocab Word: The _________ in a poem which could be the poet or a character he/she created.

What is Voice/Speaker?

300

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!

What is a hyperbole?

300

What sound device is used in this quote? 

Kaboom!
Ka-blast
Way in the past
the miners mined for ore.
They searched for copper, iron and salt,
for that and much, much more.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

A form of Japanese poetry consisting of 3 lines, with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables

What is Haiku? 

300

The feeling the reader gets from a poem.

What is mood?

300

The pattern of rhymes within a poem.

What is a rhyme scheme?

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 poem that takes the shape of something that symbolizes the poem.

What is a Concrete Poem?

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

The eyes are the window to the soul.

What is metaphor?

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

A form that does not adhere to and rules and is free flowing. 

What is Free Verse?

500

What is the theme of the poem Annabel Lee? 

"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride In her sepulcher there by the sea -"

What is "Love never dies"? 

(Variations allowed!)

500

A type of writing where words are arranged based on their meaning, sound, and rhythm to share ideas and feelings. 

What is Poetry?