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Figurative Language
Vocabulary
Rhyme Scheme
Types of Poetry
Figurative Langauge 2
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Eat Wisely Franks and fries, and French fondue Beans and burgers and biscuits too Chicken, chili, and cheddar cheese When I munch too much, I always sneeze! This poem contains examples of this type of figurative language
Alliteration
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A single thought or piece of a sentence in a poem. Multiple ones generally make up a stanza.
What is a line of poetry?
100
The itsy bitsy spider Went up the water spout Down came the rain And washed the spider out Is an example of this rhyme scheme
What is ABCB?
100
This type of poem has 3 lines with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
An example of a simile.
What is, "You are as boring as watching the home shopping network."
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Your Feet Your feet smell so bad, just like limburger cheese, that I'm holding my nose tight between my two knees. The type of figurative language contained within this poem compares feet and limburger cheese.
What is a simile.
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A paragraph of poetry.
What is a stanza?
200
My cat is nice. My cat likes mice. My cat is fat. I like my cat. This is an example of this type of rhyme scheme?
What is AABB?
200
This type of poem is in the shape of a diamond and can connect two unlike subjects.
What is a diamante poem?
200
'Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.' ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, (The Concord Hymn) This type of figurative language is contained within these lines.
What is a hyperbole?
300
The rusty spigot sputters, utters a splutter, spatters a smattering of drops, gashes wider; slash splatters scatters spurts finally stops sputtering and plash! gushes rushes splashes clear water dashes. This type of figurative language is displayed multiple times in the above poem.
What is onomatopoeia?
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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is meter?
300
An example of a rhyming couplet. In poetry, two lines that rhyme.
What is, "Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight. For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. "
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This type of poem is created by choosing 15-20 words from a passage and arranging them into a poem.
What is found poetry?
300
An example of alliteration.
What is , "Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter's bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter, and she put it in her batter and the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter."
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Her hair was a fierce lion's mane, never washed and sticking out in wild directions. This sentence is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor
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The overall message and lesson the author is trying to get the reader to understand.
What is the theme of a poem?
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My cat is nice. My cat is fat. My cat likes mice. I like my cat. This is an example of this type of rhyme scheme.
What is ABAB?
400
This type of poem doesn't have to rhyme.
What is a free verse poem?
400
Give an example of a hyperbole?
What is, " I'm so thirsty I could drink a lake."
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Hey diddle, Diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. This children's nursery rhyme is filled with this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
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Cat Bat Mail Pail Dog Hog Chair Hair
What is an example of rhyme?
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My cat is gray. My cat is fat. My cat is cute. I like my cat. This is an example of this type of rhyme scheme?
What is ABCB?
500
3 types of poetry.
What is haiku, free verse, found poem.
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An example of a metaphor.
What is, " His belt was a snake curling around his waist."