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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Miscellaneous I
Miscellaneous II
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 three-line poem with 17 total syllables.
What is Haiku?
200
The "dictionary" definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
A reference to another literary work, work of art, or historical event in a poem or piece of literature.
What is an allusion?
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
Descriptions that appeal to sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell.
What are sensory images?
300
A poem in a shape that relates to the topic.
What is concrete poetry?
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 that expresses feeling and has an almost musical quality.
What is a lyric poem.
400
The accent of pattern of speech unique to a geographic region.
What is dialect?
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 that has uses unusual line or word spacing for a specific effect.
What is pattern poetry?
500
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage: 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
This type of rhyme is found in the following: "He found a blue shoe on the floor."
What is internal rhyme?