Figurative Langauge
Patterns in Poetry
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How Poems Are
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100
Identify the type of figurative language being used below-
I have died everyday, waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
What is hyperbole?
100
Pattern made by how poem rhymes at the END of a line. Letters are assigned to each line according to the end rhyme.
Answer: What is RHYME SCHEME?
(PRACTICE: Shelley slide #20-#22)
100
Words that imitate sounds.
Answer: What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
100
Lines of poetry that form a division in the poem.
Answer: What is a STANZA?
200
Identify the Figurative Language:
And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears
So done with wishing you were still here
Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow
So why can't I turn off the radio?
-Ne-Yo, "So Sick"
What is Alliteration?
200
When a certain word, sentence or phrase is written more than once in a poem to help make the writing more interesting and to help create patterns and allow for more emphasis to be placed on certain themes, ideas or objects.
What is repetition?
200
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
Answer: What is diction?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
A pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme.
Answer: What is a COUPLET?
(Couple=Two)
300
Identify the figurative language:
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?
What is a similie?
300
Repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words in a poem.
(Example: My mom made my Monday more magnificent.)
Answer: What is Alliteration?
300
The idea or feeling of a word separate from its literal meaning.
(Pretty and beautiful have similar meanings, but beautiful has a stronger feeling.)
Answer: What is CONNOTATION?
300
Emotion or feelings an author felt or want their audience to feel while reading their poem (aka mood).
Answer: What is TONE?
400
Identify the Figurative Language:
Last night, while I lay thinking here,
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I’m dumb in school?
Whatif they’ve closed the swimming pol?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there’s poison in my cup?
Whatif I start to cry?
-"Whatif" by Shel Silverstein
Answer: What is repetition and personification?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Repetition of CONSONANTS in a line - NOT at the beginning.
(Example: Sue was passing Art class.)
Answer: What is CONSONANCE?
(PRACTICE: Shelley slide #17)
400
Continuation of a complete thought/idea from one line to the next.
Answer: What is ENJAMBMENT?
400
An open form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech
Answer: What is a free form poem.
500
Identify the Figurative Language:
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Identify the Figurative Language:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
What is a symbol?
500
Repetition of the same sounds in a line.
Answer: What is ASSONANCE?
(PRACTICE: Shelley slide #18-#19)
500
Words are NOT meant to be taken word for word.
Answer: What is an IDIOM?
500
A stanza or short poem consisting of FOUR lines.
Answer: What is a QUATRAIN?
(QUATRO=FOUR)