Poetry I
"She is cute as a button"
Simile
"Boom! Wham! Pow!"
Onomatopoeia
"I had a billion things to do for homework"
Hyperbole
What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Stanza
"From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire"
- Robert Frost
Rhyme
What is the feeling a reader gets from a text when reading called?
Mood
What is the main message or idea of a poem called?
Theme
"But oh heart! Heart! Heart!
Repetition
"My heart shattered into pieces"
Metaphor
What is the point where one line ends in a poem and another line begins called?
Line break
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
What is the pattern of rhyme in a poem called?
Rhyme scheme
What do we call a person who writes poetry?
poet
What is the attitude of feeling an author creates in their writing called?
Tone
What is a metaphor that continues for several stanzas or the length of a poem called?
Ex: Fog poem
Extended metaphor
What is the internal feel or beat of a poem called?
Rhythm
When you make an inanimate object a person you are doing what form of figurative language?
Personification
Free verse
A group of lines within a poem is called a ?
Stanza