Metaphor, Simile, or Personification?
Basic Poetry Terms I
Types of poems/poetry structure
Poetry Terms
Extra Stuff
100
Her eyes are as blue as the ocean.
What is a simile?
100
Poetry
What is a form/genre of writing that uses words to express feelings?
100
Rhyme Scheme
What is the way a poem's lines rhyme
100
Simile
What is a comparison using like/as?
100
Denotation
What is the literal meaning?
200
The wind whispered to the trees.
What is personification?
200
Stanza
What is a division/unit of meaning?
200
Sonnett
14 lines, 4 stanzas
200
Metaphor
What is a comparison between two unlike things, not using like or as?
200

Create a haiku poem with one of OSG's values.

Any awesome response accepted!

300
The avalanche was fury.
What is metaphor?
300
Theme
What is the main idea?
300
**Double** Free verse
What is poetry with no fixed rhyme?
300
Personification
What is giving something nonhuman a human-like quality?
300
Connotation
What are the emotional feelings associated with words?
400
The child was as calm as a breeze.
What is a simile?
400
Subject
What is the main topic?
400
Couplet
2 lines that rhyme
400

**Double** Hyperbole

Heavily exaggerated words/ phrases

400
What is Mrs. Lake's favourite colour?

What is pink, obviously!

500
The hurricane devoured the town.
What is personification?
500

Imagery

What is creating pictures in the mind?

500
Lyrical
What is a poem that expresses the thoughts/feelings of a single speaker? (14 lines, ends in a couplet)
500
**Double** Alliteration
What is the repetition of consonant sounds?
500
**Ticket x 2** Within your group, come up with an example of: - Personification - Alliteration
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