Figurative Language
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100
Listening to the lecture was as boring as watching paint dry.
What is a simile
100

Language used to appeal to the five senses.

a. imagery b. alliteration c. prose d. rhyme

What is imagery

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 hyperbole or idiom
200

Peter Piper picked a pack of peppers. What type of sound device is this? 

a. imagery b. alliteration c. prose d. rhyme

What is alliteration

200

The attitude a poem implies or the attitude the speaker demonstrates.

What is tone

200

I opened the bedroom door and was overwhelmed by the thought of a basketball players socks that has been worn for a week without being washed. This appeals to what sense?

What is smell

300
I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.
What is a metaphor.
300

A poem that tells a story.

a. sonnet b. ode c. free verse d. narrative

What is a narrative

300

The feeling or atmosphere a poem creates for the reader.

What is mood

300

A person who is giving their point of view or the speaker of a poem

a. speaker b. poet c. narrator 

What is a narrator

400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind like a ballerina.
What is personification and simile
400

A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.

a. sonnet b. ode c. free verse d. narrative

What is free verse

400
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration
400

What type of poem has no rhyme no rhythm... just words about a feeling?

a. lyrical b. free verse c. narrative d. humorous

What is free verse

500

The sweater was hugging him tightly.

What is personification

500

A poem containing the following line is using...

The bright green grass, dusted lightly with the morning dew, swayed gently to the wind's rhythm.

a. imagery b. alliteration c. prose d. rhyme

What is imagery

500

What is the theme of this poem? 

Morning is

a new sheet of paper

for you to write on.

Whatever you want to say,

all day,

until night

folds it up

and flies it away.

The bright words and the dark words

are gone

until dawn

and a new day

to write on.

Theme: Life goes on.

500
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?