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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?
200
A lyrical poem meant to address something.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
This type of poem is usually funny and short
What is limerick?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
What type figurative language is used? You're in so much trouble you have to sleep in the doghouse.
What is idiom?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
How many lines are in each line of a haiku?
5 7 5
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
What is the rhyme scheme? bed head see tree dead
a a b b a
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
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 poem containing three elements: a narrator telling a story, and is often a love story that rhymes.
What is a ballad?
500
Who feels mood in a poem or story?
The reader
500
What form of poetry is this? Beneath a blanket of earth With a pillow made of stone Her child eternally sleeps
What is an elegy?