Sound Devices
Figurative Language
Types of Poetry
Craft and Structure
Miscellaneous
100
When you use a word phrase, sound or line more than once
What is repetition
100
What is it called when a writer uses a creative comparison to describe familiar things in new ways
What is figurative language
100
When an author uses no rhythm, rhyme or line length
What is free verse poetry
100
In poetry, a voice that talks to the reader
What is the speaker
100
Words and phrases that make pictures in your mind as you read poetry
What is images or imagery
200
Repetition of the sounds at the end of words, that are the same
What is rhyming
200
Name two movies that use personification?
Disney movies, any cartoons
200
True or false: Narrative poems tell stories
TRUE
200
Used in poetry, it can be a single word, a sentence or part of a sentence
What is a line
200
True or False: When writers use imagery, they use their senses to create a mental picture
TRUE
300
Give an example of alliteration
Using the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words
300
How are similes and metaphors alike and different
They are alike because, they are both comparing two unlike things. They are different because, similes use like or as and metaphors don't.
300
A short poem in which the author expresses personal thoughts and feelings
What is lyric poetry
300
The way the poem looks on the page
What is form
300
What is a rhymed pair of lines in poetry
What is a couplet
400
Explain the meaning of rhythm in your own words
What is the way the words are read with a pattern or a beat.
400
When you describe an object, animal or idea as if it were human or had human qualities
What is personification
400
Explain why this is a Haiku: One shark said to the other when eating a clown fish: this tastes funny.
A haiku is a Japanese poem that uses senses to display images, it is a 17 syllable poem with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second and 5 in the last line.
400
Explain the difference between structured poems and free verse poems
Structured poems have either rhyming, rhythm, repetition or certain amount of lines Free verse poems have no rules
400
Name two authors or two poems that we have read in class
6th - Emily Dickerson, Christine Rossetti, EE Cummings, Basho 7th - Edgar Allen Poe, Nikki Giovanni, Alfred Noyes, Basho, Robert Frost 8th - Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickerson, Alexander Pope, EB White, Maya Angelo
500
Give three examples of onomatopoeia
BANG, BOOM, POW
500
Give an example of a simile and metaphor
Simile - comparison of two things using like or as Metaphor - comparison of two things
500
What makes a good poem?
Audience can visualize the poem Audience can understand the poem Its creative Uses imagery, senses, descriptive words Has sound devices, figurative language
500
How many stanzas are in the poem: Bad Morning By: Langston Hughes
ONE Stanza
500
Explain what the rhyme scheme is with the poem below: Roses are red, violets are blue, Ms. Vine is so special, and Mr. Hubbard is too.
A B C B
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