Poetic Forms & Elements
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 point of view used when the speaker refers to themselves using "I" or "my"
What is FIRST PERSON?
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?
A literary device comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
What is a METAPHOR?
The pronouns used to address the reader directly in texts written in second person.
What is YOU and YOUR?
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 twice 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 point of view is used in a narrative when the narrator tells the story and reveals the thoughts and feelings of only one character?
What is THIRD PERSON LIMITED?
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 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?
What is THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT?
The general statement about life that can be conveyed through both narrative and lyric poems (as well as other literary forms).
What is a THEME?
... 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 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?
The point of view in the following excerpt:
"The small vessel, the Wanderer, sailed into the harbor. The captain felt pride, but the young deckhand only felt homesickness."
What is THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT?