Structural Elements
A group of lines that gives a poem its form
What is a Stanza?
The person who narrates the poem
Who is the Speaker?
The message of a poem or what the poem is about
What is a theme?
Comparing two things with "like" or "as"
What is a Simile?
This type of poem does not have many of the typical attributes that most poems have
Word choices that are more casual and could use slang
A thing or writing that represents a bigger meaning
What is Symbolism?
When human characteristics are given to an animal, thing, or idea.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
"From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire"
is an example of ___________
What is a Rhyme?
This is how it makes the reader feel when reading the poem
What is Mood?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
At the end of the day, Poetry Analysis has to do with ______________ and _______________
What is "meaning" and "emotion"?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
"One thousand stampeding bison thundering across the plains
Couldn’t drown out the sound of my heart beating for you."
This is an example of this type of figurative language
What is a Hyperbole?
A repeated pattern of movement or sound; gives the poem groove and feeling.
What is rhythm?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
"Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard."
Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise" has a confident ______ (Fill in the blank)
What is tone?
In the story of Snow White, what might the poison apple symbolize?
What is evilness, greed, power-hunger, villainy, and bad-guy-associated-tomfoolery?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
"I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off."
This poem is an example of this figurative language
What is a Metaphor?