Poetic Structure
A group of lines arranged together in a poem.
What is a stanza?
Comparing two things that are not alike using like or as.
What is simile?
She eats like a pig.
What is she is messy when she eats?
She ran as fast as lightning to get to class on time.
What is simile?
the rain pitter-pattered against the gals of the window.
What is onomatopoeia?
What is a line?
Exaggerating as a way to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
The lightning danced across the sky.
What is there are multiple lightning strikes appearing across the sky?
Go and gather the green leaves on the grass.
What is alliteration?
The universal moral or lesson.
What is theme?
the "narrator" of the poem, the voice telling us thoughts and feelings.
Who is speaker?
Descriptions using the five senses that create a visual in the reader’s mind.
What is sensory language?
She is an early bird.
What is she enjoys mornings.
The teacher asked us to be quiet a million times.
What is hyperbole?
An indirect reference to another piece of work.
What is allusion?
The person who wrote the poem.
Who is poet?
When a thing or place is given human-like qualities.
What is personification?
What is my feet hurt?
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
What is repetition?
the use of a word or object which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves.
What is symbolism?
A pattern of rhyming words or sounds.
What is rhyme scheme?
when the same letter sound is used in multiple words in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
It's a piece of cake.
What is that it was easy to do?
It's time I bit the bullet and grade those essays.
What is idiom.
What is tone is the author's attitude toward the topic they are writing about and mood is the reader's feelings.