Theme
Poetic Devices
Tone
Imagery
Theme or not a theme
100
What is the definition of theme.
The message about life the author is trying to get across.
100
What is alliteration
Sammy slowly slid across the soccer field after missing his kick.
100
What is the tone of this poem? What words give you that tone? The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
sadness or anger- Dead, pelt, knelt, lodged
100
What is imagery
Creating a picture in the reader's mind
100
Theme or not a theme: Love
Not a theme
200
What is the theme of this poem: "Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
Hope can keep people going.
200
What is a metaphor
Her hair, the night, cascaded down her shoulders and brought the darkness.
200
What is the tone of this poem? What words lead you to that tone? No ship of all that under sail or steam Have gathered people to us more and more But Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dream Has been her anxious convoy in to shore.
Excitement- dream, anxious
200
What is the sense being used to create imagery here? He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.
hearing
200
Theme or Not a Theme: Anger is bad.
Not a true theme
300
What is the theme of this poem? The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
People can find joy in simple nature.
300
What is a simile.
He fell as softly as a feather and therefore did not break any bones.
300
What is the theme and supporting words of this poem? Was there even a cause too lost, Ever a cause that was lost too long, Or that showed with the lapse of time to vain For the generous tears of youth and song?
Regret- lost cause, lapse, vain, generous tears
300
What is sense is being used to create an image here? We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground— The Roof was scarcely visible— The Cornice—in the Ground—
sight
300
Theme or not a theme: Being nice to people brings rewards.
Theme
400
What is the theme of this poem? Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
Youth and innocence cannot last forever.
400
What is hyperbole
Her smile was so wide that people could swim across it if it were an ocean.
400
What is the theme and supporting words of this poem? A plow, they say, to plow the snow. They cannot mean to plant it, no-- Unless in bitterness to mock At having cultivated rock.
Anger- bitterness, mock
400
What is sense is being used to create imagery here? And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again. Then space began to toll
hearing
400
Theme or not a theme? Don't talk to strangers.
Not a true theme
500
What is the theme of this poem? The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean-- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
Relationships are important for people to have.
500
What is onomatopoeia and personification
The clock bonged twice and then proceeded to annoy me with its jabbing ticks.
500
What is the tone and supporting words for this poem? Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
sadness- hardest hue to old, subsides, grief, nothing can stay
500
What is the sense being used to create imagery here? To feel no other breezes than are blown Through its tall woods with high romances blent: Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment For skies Italian, and an inward groan To sit upon an Alp as on a throne, And half forget what world or worldling meant.
hearing and sight
500
Theme or not a theme: Following rules blindly can lead to heartache.
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