Poetry & literacy Terms
What is the voice you hear in the poem?
Speaker
An overstatement,exaggeration for literacy effect.
Hyberbole
The horse galloped down the road they were so beautiful.
add a semicolon after road
the first lunch,the students cleaned the tables.
Add the word during at the beginning of the sentence
The boys went to the park,but they did not go to the zoo.
compound
What is the end rhyme of of each line?
Rhyme Scheme
A directly stated comparison.
Example:We were diamonds in the night.
Metaphor
tropical rainforests recieve more than 80 inches of rain each year.
Capitalize the T in tropical
We can cook or go out to eat at Golden Corral.
Because the boys went to the park,they did not go to the zoo.
complex
The number of "feet" in a line of verse.
Meter
A comparison using like or as.
Example:We were like diamonds in the night.
Simile
the dog is a huge pitbull.
Capiltalize T in the The
, you can go to the store and buy some chips.
Add for instance to the beginning of the sentence.
Since Anthony finished the test early,he sliently read his book.
complex
It is like a paragraph, but in poetry.
Stanza
Buzz,tweet,slurp,smack
Onomatopoeia
The girl like the boy the boy doesn't like the girl.
Put a comma and the fanboy and after boy
You mix the cake mix in a bowl ,and you put the mix in a bowl,
add the word then after and
You do your best to get every answer right on khoot-but it's tough!
compound
The message or lesson the poet/ author is trying to show you in their writing.
Theme
Giving human-like characteristics to non-human things or abstract ideas.
Personification
What are the two causes of the story.
put a question mark at the end of the question
, you can go to the park and play with your friends.
Add anyways to the beginning of the sentences
Doing your nightly reading is necessary,yet completing homework and listening well in class will also help you to succeed.
compound