Metaphor, Simile, or Personification?
The man was as hungry as a bear.
What is simile?
An unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing five, seven, and five syllables respectively
What is Haiku?
Which of the following statements is figurative? A) His anger showed. B) He was angry. C) He was so angry his hair was on fire.
B) He was so angry his hair was on fire.
Similar sounds at the end of lines
What is rhyme?
A metaphor
What is a comparison of two unlike things, not using like or as?
The room is a freezer.
What is a metaphor?
An inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there
What is an Epitaph?
Hyperbole
What are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?
Simile
What is a comparison using "like" or "as"?
Ranch is playing this team this weekend in the football playoffs.
Who is Columbine High School?
**Double** The tires screamed on the pavement.
What is personification?
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes.
What is a Sonnet?
Stanza
What is a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme?
Personification
What is giving something not human a human-like quality?
A poem we read that talked of man who appeared successful, rich and well liked.
Who is Richard Cory?
The wind howled.
What is personification?
A literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations or regular meter or rhthym, and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
What is Free Verse?
"Walkin' in a Winterland" is an example of this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
"The bell clanged for school to begin" is an example of what poetic device?
What is Onomatopoeia?
Speaker
What is the voice behind the poem-the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud?
The tree was as tall as a skyscraper.
What is simile?
**Double** A poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase.
What is an Acrostic?
Evokes (brings to mind) sensory experiences for reading by appealing to the five senses (sight, taste, touch, smell, sound)
What is Imagery?
Refers to an expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty.
What is a Cliche?
Two poets we learned about in our Master poets project that performed their poetic works at a Presidential Inaugaration.
Who are Maya Angelou and Robert Frost?