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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
A long narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events in the poet's culture.
What is an epic poem?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
This is how text appears in a poem. It includes line length, word position, and bolded text. Shape poems are a popular example of this.
What are graphical elements?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
The rhythmic pattern of a poem.
What is meter?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
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
Narrative poems, lyrical poems, epic poems, sonnets, haiku, etc.
What are some examples of poetic forms?
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
BOOM!!! Crack! Pow! Snap!
What is onomatopoeia?
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
When an author uses variations of the same metaphor throughout an entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
500
You read a text, and it makes you feel positive and optimistic about your day.
What is mood?
500
What form of poetry is this? Why? Your eyes are as beautiful as the starry night. No one has ever stolen my heart as you have. To the ends of the earth I would go Just to make sure you are safe from harm.
What is a lyric or lyrical poetry?