What is comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
100
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
What is a simile
100
Which of the 5 senses does this excerpt describe the most?
They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center
-"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
Maya Angelou
What is sight
100
"What happens to a dream deferred?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
a pair of lines that rhyme
What is a couplet
200
personification
What is giving inanimate objects human-like characteristics/qualities
200
The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another
What is personification
200
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
-Robert Frost, "After Apple-Picking"
What is ABBACC
200
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Who is Shakespeare
300
an extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300
sensory language
What is language that vividly describes any of the 5 senses
300
"What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
- Romeo and Juliet
What is metaphor
300
Give an example of a hyperbole
Many correct answers
300
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Who is Robert Frost?
400
a poem that tells a story with a complete plot
What is narrative poem
400
Rhyme scheme
What is the pattern of rhyming lines within a poem
400
The roundest knight at King Arthur’s table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from far too much pi.
What is a pun
400
What is the type of Irish poem that consists of 5 lines with the rhyme pattern AABBA?
What is a limerick
400
I will not play at tug-o-war; I'd rather play at hug-o-war
Who is Shel Silverstein
500
A Japanese poem consisting of three lines with a total of 17 syllables.
What is haiku
500
Allusion
When an author makes a reference to another work such as a book, story, poem, song, or movie within a text.
500
One ear in Italy, one eye in Spain,
In caves, my blood, and in the stars, my brain.
"Pale Fire", Vladimir Nabokov
What is a couplet
500
calling a greedy person a "scrooge" or a weakness your "Achilles heel" is an example of ___________