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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
The type of rhyme defined as a slight repetition of sounds.
What is near/half/impure rhyme?
200
A lyrical poem that praises something you really, really love.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude of the author of a text.
What is tone?
200
Sound words
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
A type of poetry with only 3 lines and a specific number of syllables per line.
What is a haiku?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
Rhyme within a line
What is internal rhyme?
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
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
Two lines of poetry together before a break
What is a couplet?
500
A type of narrative poem that is meant to be sung and has a refrain (chorus).
What is a ballad?
500
What is the tone of the following statement: I am so lonely I could die!
What is sad/somber/depressed?
500
What form of poetry is this? Why? O, car! You beautiful machine! You magically transfer me from place to place. The purring of your engine as we travel like the wind Brings me the utmost joy!
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.