Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Forms of Poetry 1
Forms of Poetry 2
Miscellaneous
100
This is the difference between a metaphor and a simile.
What is metaphors say one thing is another while similes use like or as?
100
The repetition of sounds at the end of words like preach and teach.
What is rhyme?
100
The country in which the haiku originated.
What is Japan?
100
This kind of poetry does not have a strict structure.
What is free verse?
100
Give an example of a word that uses the suffix -y in the way we learned about.
What is [answers vary]?
200
It is the type of figurative language used in the following sentence: "You look like a million dollars."
What is a simile?
200
The sound device in the following sentence, "The saw buzzed as it cut the wood."
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This form of poetry is defined as a three-line poem with five syllables in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the middle line.
What is a haiku?
200
The number of lines in a limerick.
What is five?
200
The meaning of the Latin root -lum-.
What is light?
300
It is the specific term for an object, person, animal, or place that represents something other than itself.
What is a symbol?
300
Out of the following, it is NOT a sound device: alliteration, onomatopoeia, imagery, rhyme.
What is imagery?
300
This poem is defined as a poem arranged in a visual image that suggests its meaning.
What is concrete poem?
300
The kind of poem that is shaped to look like its subject.
What is concrete poem?
300
The definition of Meter as it pertains to poetry.
What is the rhythmical pattern in a poem?
400
Give an example of a sentence that personifies rain.
What is [answers vary]?
400
It is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables.
What is assonance?
400
This is the main purpose of a narrative poem.
What is to tell a story?
400
The following is an example of this type of poem: There was and Old Man with a beard Who said, "It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!"
What is a limerick?
400
The meaning of the Latin suffix -y.
What is "having" or "marked by"?
500
The definition of "Figurative Language."
What is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally?
500
The difference between alliteration and consonance.
What is alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words while consonance has the repetition of consonant wounds at the end of words?
500
This kind of poem is song-like poems that often talk about adventure and romance.
What is a ballad?
500
The following is an example of this kind of poetry: Burgers, prunes, and warm spaghetti To eat this stuff I'm not ready.
What is a rhyming couplet?
500
The American flag is "this" of freedom and our country.
What is a symbol?