Figurative Language
What is the figurative language being used? "She is a shining star!"
What is a metaphor?
A comparison without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
In poetry, a stanza is similar to _________ which is always found in regular written text such as essays, articles, and books.
What is a paragraph?
An old silent pond
A frog jumps into the pond—
Splash! Silence again.
Haiku
Has 5 lines and is funny (to most people)
What is a limerick?
What is the figurative language being used? "Her smiles is as bright as the sun."
What is a simile?
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
What does a title tell us about a poem?
topic or at times the main idea?
The sun goes down behind the hill,
The evening breeze is soft and still.
The little stars begin to peep,
As quiet woods drift off to sleep.
Rhymed Verse
Has 3 lines and 17 syllables.
What is a haiku?
A phrase that means something different than it says.
What is an idiom?
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”
limerick
Can be any length but must rhyme
What is a rhymed verse?
What type of figurative language is being used? "I have a thousands pages of homework tonight."
What is hyberbole?
A pattern of rhymes in lines in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
In poetry, what do poets call what looks like sentences that are different lengths?
What are lines?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Free Verse
Does not follow a regular rhyme scheme, fixed meter, or set pattern
What is a free verse?
A comparision using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The pattern of rhyming words in a poem
What is the rhyme scheme?
There once was a writer from Spain,
Who tried to write poems in vain.
They sat at the screen,
With a mind crisp and clean,
But only produced a refrain!
Limerick
Must have an AABBA rhyme scheme
What is a limerick?