Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Contributions to a Poem
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? 

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice, 

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold to those who favor fire.

What is ABCA?

200

A type of literature where words are carefully chosen and arranged to create a certain effect.


What is poetry?

200

The attitude a poem implies.

What is tone?

200

A row of words in a poem.

What is a line?

300

A metaphor that carries the comparison through several lines or an entire poem.

What is an extended metaphor?

300

What figurative language tool is used in this statement?

Quack-quack went the ducks s we threw them our stale bread.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

All other forms of writing that are not in verse form.

What is prose?

300

The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.

What is mood?

300

The pattern of rhyme in a poem marked with letters (ABAB).

What is rhyme scheme?


400

The repetition of beginning sounds in words.

What is alliteration?

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

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?

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?

Why did the ghostly ghost say boo?

It got a closer look at you.

Why did the monster screech and scream?

It saw your face inside a dream.

What is AABB?

500

The creation of words that imitate the same sound it represents. 

What is onomatopoeia?

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

The main subject of a poem.

What is a topic?