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Figurative Language 1
Rhymes/Sounds
Figurative Language 2
Tone/Theme/
Mood
Miscellaneous
100
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as" is called this.
What is a simile?
100
Repeated consonant sound in words that are close together. Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore is an example of this.
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 in a poem (like a paragraph) that expresses an idea is called this.
What is a stanza?
200
An extreme exaggeration is called this. An example is "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
This poetry term means "an extreme exaggeration."
What is hyperbole?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines is called this.
What is a refrain?
300
A comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as" is called this.
What is a metaphor?
300
A type of rhythm created by a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called this.
What is meter?
300
A pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines is called this.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
The recurrence or repeating of something is called this.
What is a repetition?
400
Using a word such as "zip" that imitates its sound is called this.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The poem below is an example of what two literary devices? Jack be nimble Jack be quick Jack jump over the candle stick.
What is rhyme scheme and repetition?
400
Sensory details created with descriptive words is this word.
What is imagery?
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
A type of figurative language that gives human-like (person-like) characteristics to something that is nonhuman is called this.
What is personification?
500
Using a word such as bazinga that imitates its sound is called this.
What is onomatapoeia?
500
This poetry term means "a comparison that goes beyond one example, throughout many lines.
What is extended metaphor?
500
What mood is created in the line below? ""Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
The mood is depressing/gloomy.
500
The word "toot" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?