Sound Devices
Forms of Poetry
Examples of Figurative Language
Poetry
Figurative Language
100

Cat and Rat

What is rhyme?

100

A three lined poem with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables (Japanese word) 

What is a haiku poem?

100

Yellow like the sun.

What is simile?

100

A group of lines arranged together like a paragraph. 

What is a stanza? 

100

A comparison of like of as

What is simile?

200

Buzz!

What is onomatopoeia?

200

A short poem usually written in first person: it is in musical verse

What is a lyric poem?

200

The rain ran down the side of the house.

What is personification?

200

A pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines. 

What is a rhyme scheme?

200

A figure of speech that give human qualities to something that is nonhuman.

What is personification?

300

Wendy walked while talking. 

What is alliteration?

300

The author of a poem is called ______.

What is a poet?

300

I read that book a thousand times.

What is a hyperbole?

300

A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem.

What is a couplet?

300

An expression where the actual meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression.

What is an idiom?

400

Splat!

What is onomatopoeia? 

400

A group of words together on one ______.

What is a line?

400

It's raining cats and dogs!

What is an idiom?

400

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

One sister for sale!

One sister for sale!

One crying and spying young sister for sale!

I'm really not kidding,

So who'll start the bidding?

What is AAABB?

400
The use of extreme exaggeration.

What is a hyperbole? 

500

She said it again, and again, and again

What is repetition?

500

The narrator (who is speaking to us) of the poem.

Who is the speaker?

500

His Pinocchio nose kept growing!

What is allusion?

500

What phrases are repeitition?

If you are a dreamer, come in, 

If you are a dreamer, wisher, liar, 

Come in!

Come in!

What is "if you are a dreamer" and "come in"

500

A reference to a well know person, event, place.

What is an allusion?