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 invoke feelings in the audience?

100

Rhyme Scheme

What is the way a poem's lines rhyme

100

Simile

What is a comparison using like/as?

100

Describe the theme of one of the poems we read for homework.

Frost - Beauty fades

Dickinson - Depression
Daniel Whitehead Hicky - Parallel between man and machine

200

The wind whispered to the trees.

What is personification?

200

Stanza

What is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose?

200

Shakespearean Sonnet

What is a poem with a specific rhyme scheme, with fourteen lines, and ending in a heroic couplet.

200

Cinquain

What is a 5-line stanza?

200

What was the theme of the poem we watched in the TED Talk?

Nature; Beauty; Create without fear

300

The avalanche was fury.

What is metaphor?

300

Examples of Prose

What are novels, textbooks, or newspaper articles?

300
The repetition of a specific consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
300

Personification

What is giving something nonhuman a human-like quality?

300

Which was your favorite poem we read?

Your answer:

400

The child was as calm as a breeze.

What is a simile?

400

Free Verse

What is a poem that does not adhere to a rhyme scheme, meter, or typical poetic structure?

400

Couplet

2 lines that rhyme

400

What is another word for poetry?

Verse

400

What is something new that you learned from this unit?

Your answer:

500

The train whooshed by us speedily.

What is onomatopeia?

500

The author of "Nothing Gold Can Stay".

Who is Robert Frost?

500

Soliloquy

What is a poem that expresses the thoughts/feelings of a single speaker to the audience?

500

The rhythm within a line of poetry.

What is the meter?

500

Define the following words:
Thine
Thou art
Dost
Thy

Thine = your, yours
Thou art = you are
Dost = does
Thy = you, your

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