Instructions for Figurative Language in Poetry Review Game

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. Look for examples of personification, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, and alliteration in each poem. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29. References Holt elements of literature(2nd ed.). (2005). Orlando, FL: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.