Definitions
This is a group of lines in a poem that go together, like a paragraph in a story.
What is a stanza?
Identify the figurative language device: "The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
The rhyme scheme of these lines?
The sky is blue/
The grass is green/
Birds fly high/
What a scene!
What is ABCB
"The wind whispered secrets through the trees." Is this LITERAL or FIGURATIVE?
What is figurative?
In the phrase "crisp and round, glowing like a lantern bright," which device is used?
What is simile?
A single row of words in a poem
In the phrase "My stomach growls louder than a roaring lion," what device is used?
What is a hyperbole?
Identify the rhyme scheme:
The mountain peaks reach high /
Touching clouds above /
Snow falls from the sky /
Like a blanket of love /
While eagles soar and fly
What is ABABA
What is the FIGURATIVE meaning of: "She has a million things to do before Friday"?
What is she had a lot to do/she is very busy?
The vocab word that means pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem, labeled with letters like AABB or ABAB.
What is rhyme scheme?
Words that sound similar but don't rhyme perfectly, like "time" and "mine"
What is near rhyme?
Identify the figurative language device: "The golden sun dipped below the horizon, its light streaming across the sky with streaks of orange and pink. There was a gentle snap as a twig broke under her foot."
What is imagery?
Identify the rhyme scheme:
Summer days are hot and long /
Children playing without care /
The ice cream truck sings its song /
Happiness fills the air /
Laughter the whole day through /
Joy shared between me and you
What is ABABCC?
What is literal meaning is what the words mean exactly and directly, while figurative meaning is the deeper, inferred, or more meaningful idea?
What is to use the senses to create pictures in the reader's mind and make the poem more memorable/vivid?
This type of poem has no regular rhyme, meter, or fixed line length; it sounds like natural speech.
What is free verse?
Identify the device: "Time is a thief that steals our moments without warning."
What is a metaphor?
What is the rhyme scheme of this 5-line stanza?
The city streets are crowded, busy /
Car horns make people dizzy /
Airplane engines rumble by /
Never stopping, wild and whizzy/
Tall buildings touch the sky
What is AABAB
In the line "The moon is a giant cookie in the night sky," explain BOTH the literal and the figurative meanings.
Literal: The moon is actually a cookie
Figurative: The moon is golden, round, or there's something attractive/fun about it.
Explain the difference between alliteration and onomatopoeia.
What is alliteration is the repetition of beginning sounds in nearby words, while onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the noise it describes?
Define "Theme" in poetry.
What is the author's main message, big idea, or lesson about life to the reader?
Identify the figurative language device: "She has the Midas touch."
What is an allusion?
Identify the rhyme scheme:
Winter comes with frost so cold /
Stories from the days of old /
Icicles hang from every tree /
Wonders waiting to unfold/
Frozen beauty all around
What is AABAC?
Analyze this line for both Literal AND Figurative meanings: "Time is a thief that steals our moments without warning."
Literal: an actual person called Time is stealing things
Figurative: time passes quickly and takes away our opportunities and precious moments before we realize it, time is fleeting and valuable
In this line, which figurative devices are used? "The wind whispered secrets through the trees, and Jack Frost's icy breath nipped at our noses as we stomped through." (there are 3)
What are personification, allusion and onomatopoeia?