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
Did you hear about the rose that grew from the concrete?
Metaphor
What is the unit called in poetry that makes up a stanze?
Hint: Think how many ______ are there in a stanza
Line
What might this poem mean?
"My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!"
Life goes fast, but it can be really fun!
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
What does the Rose represent in Tupac's poem?
Himself / Tupac
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 imagery that has to do with touch, taste, smell, sight or sound?
Sensory imagery
What is a metaphor that continues for several stanzas or the length of a poem called?
Ex: Fog poem
Extended metaphor
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What is the internal feel or beat of a poem called?
Rhythm
What is blackout poetry?
Taking a page of something and creating a poem and blacking out the rest.
When you make an inanimate object a person you are doing what form of figurative language?
Personification
Free verse
Where was Forest Fenn's treasure found?
These two lines have?
Ex. "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- Shakespeare
Who famous poet was born and died on the same day (different years)?
William Shakespeare