4th Grade Poetry 1
I felt a stirring as my soul came awake,
As the steed stood silent on the shore of the lake.
Sadly I watched as its head gave a quick jerk.
The great horse ran off, and I got back to work.
What is the point of view of the speaker?
1st
Read this line.
“The sun above was a big ball of fire” (line 3)
What does ball mean in this context?
A: a part of the foot
B: a solid round shape
C: dancing
B
What type of figurative language is as follows:
The thunder BOOMED in the night as the lightening FLASHED across the sky.
Onomatopoeia
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem
(a paragraph of a poem)
The author of a poem is called a what?
Poet
What is a simile?
A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things by using like or as.
What is imagery?
This is an example of what poetic device?
Peter Piper picked the pickled pepper
Alliteration
What does setting mean?
where and when the story/ or poem takes place
What is a metaphor?
A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things but does NOT use like or as.
What type of figurative language is as follows:
I'm so hungry I could eat a cow.
Hyperbole
What is this an example of?
Her eyes were as blue as the sea
Simile
What is rhyme?
Two or more words that have the same middle and end sound.
Read the lines.
"A black patch on its forehead, shining mane, bright white coat,
Like a field of snow in some place remote.” (lines 7-8)
What does the word remote mean in this context?
A: distant
B: mean
C: tool
A
Instead of sentences, poets use what to show their thoughts
lines
It's raining cats and dogs is an example of what figurative language?
Idiom
What is an inference?
An educated guess using evidence from the text and your background knowledge.
How many types of imagery are there?
5
When poets use words that cause us to have feelings, what is that called?
What poetic device is this an example of?
The classroom was a zoo
Metaphor
A genre of writing that often has rhyme, uses figurative language, can cause the reader to have feelings, and has stanzas.
Poetry
Which figurative language is as follows:
The wind howled with rage outside the window.
Personification
Name the 5 types of imagery.
Visual / Ocular
Touch/ Tactile
Smell/ Olfactory
Taste/ Gustatory
Hearing/ Auditory
What is an idiom?
It is a figure of speech whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal definition of its individual words, but rather carries a specific, culturally understood figurative meaning