Poetry & Devices
A poem that focuses on a single emotion or idea.
What is LYRIC poetry?
The type of voice used in this sentence:
The students completed the project.
What is ACTIVE voice?
A word's literal definition.
What is DENOTATION?
An object that represents a bigger or more abstract idea.
What is a SYMBOL?
The common word part in the following words which means "full of":
anxious, consciousness, famous
What is "-OUS"?
A type of poem that includes characters and plot.
What is NARRATIVE poetry?
The type of voice used in this sentence:
Mistakes were made.
The emotional associations of a word despite its literal definition.
What is CONNOTATION?
Used repeatedly in the following lines from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes:
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
What is a SIMILE?
The meaning of the root word "psych" as used in words like "psychology" and "psychic".
What is the MIND?
A poetic device demonstrated in the following line from the poem "Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
They wander east, they wander west
What is REPETITION?
The active voice version of the following sentence:
"Homework was assigned before break!"
What is "THE TEACHER assigned homework before break!"? (pshhh I would NEVER)
What is "CHEAP"?
Used in the following two lines from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18":
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date...
What is PERSONIFICATION?
Combining the suffix "-ion" with the following words would change them from what to what (part of speech)?
act, create, compete, dedicate
What is a VERB to a NOUN?
A poetic device demonstrated in the following line from "Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
And are baffled and beaten and blown about...
What is ALLITERATION?
The passive voice version of the following sentence:
"The children ate the cake before dinner."
What is "THE CAKE WAS EATEN before dinner"?
The tone in the following poem:
"Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you, Away you rolling river. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away, I'm bound away, 'cross the wide Missouri."
Used in the song "I'm Gonna Be" by the Proclaimers:
I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man
Who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door
What is a HYPERBOLE?
A transition phrase showing contrast between ideas.
What is HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH, ON THE OTHER HAND, or IN CONTRAST?
Home provides a comfort the outside world cannot.
What is the THEME of the poem "Song"?
... Because an author might want to emphasize the object or result of an action or because the actor is unimportant, unknown, or the author wants to avoid directly stating who is responsible for the action.
What is the PURPOSE OF USING PASSIVE VOICE?
The weighted words or context clues in the following passage that hint at the tone:
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.
What is BURSTING, FLUSTERED, SCREAMED, UNCONTROLLABLY, and INNOCENT?
Used in the following lines of Smashmouth's "Allstar"
(aka that song from Shrek):
And all that glitters is gold
Only shooting stars break the mold
What is an IDIOM?
What the transition words "consequently," "hence," "therefore," and "thus" illustrate.
What is CAUSE and EFFECT?