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 AABBCC
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
What is mood?
What is the way a reader feels
300
The avalanche was fury.
What is metaphor?
300
Theme
What is the main idea? Lesson, Moral
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** Imagery
Language that paints a picture in your head
400
What is narrative poetry
What is a poem that tells a story complete with characters, setting, plot
500
The hurricane devoured the town.
What is personification?
500
**x 1 Ticket** 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
** Exit Ticket** Within a partner or alone, come up with an example of: - Personification - Alliteration - Imagery -Allusion
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