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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.
What is ABAB?
200
A poem that praises something or someone.
What is an ode?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
Two lines in a row that rhyme
What is couplet?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as". Saying something is something else.
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
Rhyme that occurs within a line
What is a internal rhyme?
400
Descriptive language that uses the five senses to create an image
What is imagery?
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 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
What is ABAA?
500
A poem that focuses on expressing emotions and thoughts rather than telling a story. Hint: It is not a lyric poem!
What is a ballad?
500
The _______________ of a poem addresses the following... Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Tone/Theme/Mood/Topic
What is topic?
500
Buzz is an example of which sound device?
onomatopoeia