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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
Japanese style poem written in three lines.
What is haiku?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
The physical structure of a poem.
What is form?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? "Beep Beep" goes the car through the green light.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
The way a poet creates pictures in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
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 in which the first letter of each line forms a word or phrase.
What is an acrostic 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
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
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
500
What is the mood of this passage: A canopy of trees filters the sun for me, and I am grateful... For I do not feel like having the rays glare in my eyes today, in a brooding mood I am.
What is sad/worried?
500
The "voice" of the poem.
Who is the speaker?