1. Instructions for Figurative Language in Poetry Review Game 1. Read the poems “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, “Valentine for Ernest Mann” by Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert W. Service, “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and “The Naming of Cats” by T.S. Eliot. 2.Look for examples of personification, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, and alliteration in each poem. 3.Give five examples of figurative language from each poem. Make sure that you use at least three different figures of language for each poem. 4. Put the line from the text where it says insert question and put the type of figure of speech where it says insert answer. 5. Make sure you put the line in quotes and put the line the text came from after the quote.

2. Figures of Speech Review

3. Figurative Language Review “Casey at the Bat” “Valentine for Ernest Mann” “The Cremation of Sam McGee” “Paul Revere’s Ride” “The Naming of Cats” 200 400 600 800 1000

4. Topic 1: 200 Question: A sickly silence fell…” Line 4 Answer Alliteration

5. Topic 1: 400 Question: “Cooney died at first…” Line 3 Answer Metaphor

6. Topic 1: 600 Question: “…there went up a muffled roar” Line 33 Answer Onomatopoeia

7. Topic 1: 800 Question: “Five thousand tongues applauded” Line 26 Answer Personification

8. Topic 1: 1000 Question: “And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey’s blow” Line 48 Answer Metaphor

9. Topic 2: 200 Question: “You can’t order a poem like you order a taco” Line 1 Answer Simile

10. Topic 2: 400 Question: “poems hide.” Answer Personification

11. Topic 2: 600 Question: “…In the bottoms of our shoes,/they are sleeping.” Lines 9-10 Answer Personification

12. Topic 2: 800 Question: “…They are the shadows/drifting across our ceilings the moment/ before we wake up.” Lines 10-12 Answer Metaphor

13. Topic 2: 1000 Question: “…poems that had been hiding” Line 23 Answer Personification

14. Topic 3: 200 Question: “The arctic trails have their secret tales” Line 637 Answer Alliteration

15. Topic 3: 400 Question: “the land of gold seemed to/ hold him like a spell” Lines 11-12 Answer Simile

16. Topic 3: 600 Question: “…with a sort of moan” Answer Onomatopoeia

17. Topic 3: 800 Question: “…I didn’t like to hear him sizzle” Line 49 Answer Onomatopoeia

18. Topic 3: 1000 Question: “hurried, horror driven,/With a corpse half hid” Lines 29-30 Answer Alliteration

19. Topic 4: 200 Question: “Across the moon like a prison bar” Line 21 Answer Simile

20. Topic 4: 400 Question: “Wanders and watches with eager ears,” Line 25 Answer Allieration

21. Topic 4: 600 Question: “A hurry of hoofs in a village street,” Line 73 Answer Alliteration

22. Topic 4: 800 Question: “Wrapped in silence so deep and still” Line 44 Answer Metaphor

23. Topic 4: 1000 Question: “On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats” Line 56 Answer Simile/Alliteration

24. Topic 5: 200 Question: “I’m as mad as hatter” Line 3 Answer Simile

25. Topic 5: 400 Question: “sounds sweeter,” Line 9 Answer Alliteration

26. Topic 5: 600 Question: “It isn’t just one of your holiday games” Line 2 Answer Metaphor

27. Topic 5: 800 Question: “Names that never” Line 20 Answer Alliteration

28. Topic 5: 1000 Question: “But above and beyond…” line 21 Answer Alliteration