Composed of 3 lines, each a phrase. The first line typically has 5 syllables, second line has 7 syllables, and the third and last line repeats 5 syllables. In addition there is a seasonal reference included.
What is a Haiku?
This is where words have the same ending sound.
What is Rhyme?
A comparison of 2 unlikely items using like or as.
What is a simile?
Simile, hyperbole, or metaphor.
EX. It's raining cats and dogs!
What is figurative language?
A noun that the sentence is based on or is the main part.
What is a subject?
This poem tells the story of an event in a persons life in the form of a poem.
What is a Narrative?
Division of lines into groups.
Or a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Readers feeling toward the poem.
What is mood?
It describes a noun.
What is a adjective?
The difference between the way something appears and what is actually true.
Ex. ![]()
What is irony?
Language using one or more of the 5 senses to describe something.
What is imagery?
Words formed by mimicking the sound they make.
What is onomotopeoia?
An action word.
EX. The cat climbed the tree.
What is a verb?
Occurs when the author uses the same letter or sound to begin each word in a string of words.
What is alliteration?
Exaggerated comment or line used for effect and not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
A form of literature that uses rhyming qualities of language.
EX.
What is poetry?
Expressing a thing that will happen, already happened, or happening now.
EX. Past, present, or future.
What is a tense?
Occurs when the author gives the animal or object ideas or actions.
Hint: Human Qualities
What is personification?
Author repeats a word line or phrase to give emphasis.
What is repetition?
Has on independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?