1. Poetry
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2. What does it really mean?
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Figurative Language
What does it really mean?
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3. The toast jumped out of the toaster.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification

4. This is an example of what type of figurative language?
POP!
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Onomatopoeia

5. She sells seashells by the seashore.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
Alliteration

6. The wind danced through the leaves.
What type of figurative language is this?
Personification

7. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What type of figurative language is this?
Alliteration

8. What does this idiom mean?
Hit the books.
What does this idiom mean?
To study

9. He is as skinny as a toothpick.
What does this hyperbole mean?
That he is very skinny.

10. What does this idiom mean?
Under the weather.
What does this idiom mean?
That you are sick or not feeling well.

11. It is so cold, even a polar bear would need a jacket.
What does this hyperbole mean?
That it is really cold!

12. What does this idiom mean?
In a pickle.
What does this idiom mean?
To be in trouble or to be stuck in a bad situation.

13. How many stanzas does this poem have?
Now There's Cookies
Some go crunch
Some are soft
You must agree
Home-made is boss.
Warm or gooey
Square or round
Cream in the middle
Chips abound.
Oreo cookies
I'll take more
Animal crackers
Where's the horse?
Of shortbread, chocolate
Peanut butter, crisp--
There's no more left
I ate the last six.
How many stanzas does this poem have?
4 stanzas

14. There once was a big brown cat That liked to eat a lot of mice.
He got all round and fat
Because they tasted so nice.
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABAB

15. ‘We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,’
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember
‘We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,’
Magical
In which line can you find this word?
Line 3

16. How many stanzas does this poem have?
The Bee Poem
A poem is a busy bee
Buzzing in your head.
His hive is full of hidden thoughts
Waiting to be said.
His honey comes from your ideas
That he makes into rhyme.
He flies around looking for
What goes on in your mind.
When it's time to let him out
To make some poetry,
He gathers up your secret thoughts
And then he sets them free.
How many stanzas does this poem have?
3 stanzas

17. What is repeated in this poem?
Inside
Inside the house 
I get ready
Inside the car 
I go to school
Inside the school
I wait for the bell to ring
What is repeated in this poem?
Inside

18. How many stanzas does this poem have?
'How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!’
How many stanzas does this poem have?
2 stanzas

19. It’s raining cats and dogs.
What does this idiom mean?
That it is raining really hard.

20. Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
What is the rhyme scheme?
AABB

21. How many lines does a limerick have?
There once was a wonderful star
Who thought she would go very far
Until she fell down 
And looked like a clown
She knew she would never go far.
How many lines does a limerick have?
5 lines

22. The water balloons went splat as they hit the ground.
What is the onomatopoeia word in the sentence?
splat