Poetry Terms
This is when words sound the same at the beginning, middle, or end of a line of poetry.
rhyme
What are 2 setting details of the poem "The Cold Withing"?
lost in the woods, around a campfire, cold, dark
What are 2 setting details of the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"?
Birmingham, Alabama, streets, march, church
Which Italian city is famous for its leaning tower?
Pisa
They have watered the street, / It shines in the glare of lamps, / Cold, white lamps, And lies / Like a slow-moving river
Simile
Poetry is structured using _________ (one verse) and _______ (many verses; paragraph).
lines and stanzas
What are 2 details about the conflict in the poem "The Cold Within"?
fire is dying out, strangers wont give their logs to keep the fire alive, prejudice and hatred
What is a detail about the conflict in the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"?
Daughter wants to go to the march but her mother wont let her, bombing at the church, racial hatred
Which fictional detective lived at 221b Baker Street?
Sherlock Holmes
Life is a stream / On which we strew / Petal by petal the flower of our heart
metaphor
This is a pattern of beats that you hear in a poem. (You hear it in rap music a lot.)
rhythm
What is the "tone" or "feeling" readers experience from reading the poem "The Cold Within"?
sad, angry, depressing, lost
What is the "tone" or "feeling" readers experience from reading the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"?
sad, depressing, hate-filled, loss, grief
On a farm a kid is a baby what?
Goat
The daisy hugging the earth / in August, ha!
personificatoin
This is the pattern of rhyme that happens in poetry. Each line that rhymes receives a letter, and each rhyme after that receives the next letter in the alphabet (example - abab, abcdabcd).
rhyme scheme
List 2 examples of sensory detail or figurative language from the poem "The Cold Within".
Sensory detail - dark, cold, tattered clothes, fire
List 2 examples of sensory detail or figurative language from the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham".
Sensory detail - fierce, wild, clubs, dogs, hoses, guns, fire, rose-petal sweet, bricks, glass, white shoe
Metaphor - combed her night dark hair,
Alliteration - wet and wild
What does Fred Flintstone wear around his neck?
Tie
A treasurer of immortal days, / I roam the glorious world giving endless praise,
hyperbole
1. To communicate feelings/emotions
2. To make beauty with language
3. To inform about events or ideas
4. To create an interesting form of writing
What is good theme statement for the poem "The Cold Within"?
Hatred in your heart will only cause you to perish.
Being selfish not only hurts you, but it hurts others around you.
Prejudice can kill just as much as other weapons.
What is good theme statement for the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"?
1. Hatred can destroy innocent people
2. Our best intentions sometimes end in disaster
What is the nickname for the bell of the clock at the Palace of Westminster in London, England?
Big Ben.
The earth is the cup of the sun, / That filleth at morning
metaphor