1. Identify the following Poetic Elements. The winning team receives a prize!

2. “Life is a broken- winged bird”

3. ANSWER : METAPHOR

4. WHO wrote the previous line of poetry?

5. ANSWER: LANGSTON HUGHES

6. “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get”

7. ANSWER: SIMILE

8. WHO said the previous simile?

9. ANSWER: TOM HANKS AS FORREST GUMP

10. “I heard a fly BUZZ when I died”

11. ANSWER: ONOMATOPOEIA

12. ANSWER: EMILY DICKINSON

13. WHO wrote the previous line of onomatopoeia ?

14. “That Nature murmured to herself / To keep herself in Cheer-”

15. ANSWER: PERSONIFICATION

16. WHO wrote the previous example of personification?

17. ANSWER: EMILY DICKINSON

18. Who wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ?

19. ANSWER: T.S. ELIOT

20. What is POETRY?

21. ANSWER: POETRY IS A WAY FOR A PERSON TO TRY TO EXPRESS AN EMOTION IN WORDS

22. This poem tells a story similar to a folk tail or legend which often has a repeated refrain.

23. ANSWER: BALLAD

24. This is an extensive, serious poem that tells the story about a heroic figure. Example: Beowulf

25. ANSWER: EPIC

26. This is a sad, thoughtful poem about the death of an individual. This is similar to a Eulogy.

27. ANSWER: ELEGY

28. This is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines.

29. ANSWER: HAIKU

30. What are HAIKUS often about?

31. ANSWER:NATURE

32. “We / Lurk late. We / Strike straight”

33. ANSWER: ALLITERATION

34. “Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words”

35. ANSWER: METAPHOR

36. “She had been solid as a tree”

37. ANSWER: SIMILE

38. “Let the rain kiss you. / Let the rain sing you a lullaby”

39. ANSWER: PERSONIFICATION

40. “And I kept on running down the walk / Paved with pebbles of memory big and small / Without turning to look until I was out of the gate”

41. ANSWER: IMAGERY

42. “Your spirit’s secret hides like gold / Sunk in a Spanish galleon”

43. ANSWER: ALLITERATION AND SIMILE

44. Taylor Swift’s “Lovesong” “Romeo save me, I’ve been waiting so long, I kept waiting for you but you never called” This is an example of what?

45. ANSWER: ALLUSION

46. 50 Cent said “I love you like a fat kid loves cake”

47. ANSWER : SIMILE

48. This element stands for or represents something else.

49. ANSWER: SYMBOL

50. BONUS: *3 POINTS* CREATE A LINE OF ALLITERATION WITH AT LEAST 7 REPEATING CONSONAT SOUNDS.