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Figurative Language
Rhymes/Sounds
Forms of Poetry
Tone/Theme/Mood
Miscellaneous
100
Listening to the lecture was as boring as watching paint dry.
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 freestyle

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
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
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone
200

What was the poet's name who wrote Romeo and Juliet 

Who is William Shakspeare 

300
I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.
What is a metaphor.
300
What sound device tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood
300
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
The flame of the candle danced in the wind like a ballerina.
What is personification and simile
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
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet
400
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration
400
She had a photographic memory but never developed it.
What is a pun?
500
Cupcakes are his Achilles' heel.
What is allusion
500
What is the rhyme scheme? 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

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

What is a connotation

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./
What is life goes on.
500
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?