Poetry Taboo!

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Poetry Taboo!

We are going to play Taboo. This game will include the key terms,
devices, and so on from this unit so far….
Taboo
I will split the class into two teams…
Each team will nominate one person to come to the
front. That person will have their back to the board.
Their team need to describe the word on the board
WITHOUT using the Taboo words. There will be 30
seconds in each round.
If you say a Taboo word, then the other team get the
point!
Sonnet

Taboo: Shakespeare, fourteen, iambic pentameter


Let’s get ready…

Choose one person from your


team to be your “guesser”

Remember: you can’t say ANY


of the taboo words
Stanza

Taboo: lines, sentences, grouped


Question mark

Taboo: end, query, rhetorical


GCSE English Literature

Taboo: exam, paper, poetry


Simile

Taboo: figurative, like, as


Oxymoron

Taboo: two, opposite, contrast


Imagery

Taboo: Visual, words, picture


Assonance

Taboo: vowel, repetition, A E I O U


Ellipses

Taboo: dots, circles, end


Metaphor

Taboo: figurative, describe, exaggeration


Onomatopoeia

Taboo: sound, word, like


Exclamation mark

Taboo: shock, humour, end


Rhyme

Taboo: sound, song, hear


Full stop

Taboo: circle, dot, end


Personification

Taboo: people, person, like


Capital letter

Taboo: big, large, word


Quatrain

Taboo: four, stanza, lines


Slant rhyme

Taboo: almost, not quite, poem


Repetition

Taboo: repeat, again, word


Title

Taboo: Name, top, front


Semi-colon

Taboo: comma, dot, middle


Iambic pentameter

Taboo: five, syllables, Shakespeare


Semi-colon

Taboo: comma, dot, middle


Symbolism

Taboo: represent, means, signifies


Alliteration

Taboo: letters, begin, words


Sibilance

Taboo: S, repeat, words


Unseen Poetry

Taboo: GCSE, exam, this


Language

Taboo: Words, vocabulary, talk


Iambic trimeter

Taboo: three, syllables, “My Papa’s Waltz”


Form

Taboo: Type, format, text


Structure

Taboo: Built, form, way


Punctuation

Taboo: Comma, symbol, full stop


Author

Taboo: Writer, person, name


Anthropomorphism

Taboo: Animals, objects, human


Plosive alliteration

Taboo: b, d, breath

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