Figurative Language
Giving an object human actions, thoughts or emotions.
What is personification?
"I am so hungry, I could eat a horse"
What is hyperbole?
How many stanzas does this poem have?
I like to see a thunderstorm,
A dunder storm,
A blunder storm,
I like to see it, black and slow,
Come stumbling down the hill.
I like to hear a thunderstorm,
A plunder storm,
A wonder storm,
Roar loudly at our little house
And shake the window sills!
2
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a group of sentences in a paragraph.
What is a Stanza?
What is a metaphor?
"Boom! Bang! Moo!"
What is an onomatopoeia?
How many lines does this poem have?
Star light, start bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
4
Words that end with the same sound.
What is rhyme?
When sentences or phrase has many words that begin with the same sound and/ or letter
What is alliteration?
"Busy buzzing, the bees behaved beautifully"
What is alliteration?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
The forest is the town of trees
Where they live quite at their ease,
With their neighbors at their side
Just as we in cities wide.
AABB
Repeated words or phrases at the beginning of many lines of poetry.
What is anaphora?
A word that sounds like what it describes.
What is onomatopoiea?
"The snow was a blanket."
What is a metaphor?
The person who writes the poem.
What is a poet?
the attitude of a piece of writing, expressed through the style of writing and the words the author uses
What is tone?
What is hyperbole?
"The stars winked at me from the night sky."
What is personification?
From what point of view is this poem told? How do you know?
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn’t know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Kissed them all soundly and sent them to bed.
Third person. The narrator is outside the story.
A poem that does not rhyme or have a set pattern of beats.
What is free verse?