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Rhyme/Rhyme Scheme
What's My Line/Number?
Name That Poem
What Am I?
Days Gone By...
100
Write one stanza with the a-b-a-b external rhyme scheme.
Example: It was noon when I went down the street (a) To head to the store (b) But on my way my friend I did meet (a) After we stopped talking it was a quarter to four. (b)
100
Number of total syllables in a Haiku.
What is 17?
100
3 lined poem. 5-7-5 syllables.
What is Haiku?
100
The door banged shut.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
Stop pulling my leg!!!!
What is an Idiom?
200
Write the rhyme scheme: Alex Red Orange Said Free Bee
What is a-b-c-b-d-d?
200
Cinquain.
What is 5?
200
Humorous Verse. 5 lines Lines 1,2 and 5 have 8 syllables and 3 and 4 have 5 syllables.
What is a Limerick?
200
That day the Earth was a slow moving car.
What is Metaphor?
200
Mr. Mitchell gave Darrell the book, "Hatchet" and told him to read it. He thought that maybe it could help Darrell.
What is an Allusion?
300
Write a one line example that has internal rhyme.
Example: The heat from the street burned my feet.
300
Sonnet.
What is 14?
300
No rhyme. A picture is made with words.
What is Concrete/Picture poem?
300
The tree toppled over during the terrible storm.
What is Alliteration?
300
fast:slow : hot:cold
What is an Analogy?
400
Explain through an example how an external rhyme can also be apart of an internal rhyme.
Example: A cat fell into the well The well was full of a sticky gel.
400
Quatrain.
What is 4?
400
No rules to writing this poem. You can do your "own thing!"
What is Free Verse?
400
I have a million miles to drive to get to where I am going.
What is Hyperbole?
400
As you walk in the room you drop all your books and fall. One of your friends says, "Way to go grace!!!" Dramatic, Verbal, or Situational Irony?
What is Verbal Irony?
500
Compare how a simile and metaphor are alike.
What is they both compare unlike items?
500
The number of syllables in Iambic Pentameter?
What is 10?
500
The last rhyming lines of a Sonnet that are the resolution to the poem.
What is a Couplet?
500
The snow fell like feathers from my pillow.
What is Simile?
500
You are doing laundry and decide you want your clothes extra clean so you dump the entire bottle of detergent in the washer. When you go check on your clothes soap suds are everywhere on the floor. Dramatic, Verbal, or Situational Irony?
What is Situational Irony?