Poetry I
"She is cute as a button"
Simile
"Boom! Wham! Pow!"
Onomatopoeia
"I had a billion things to do for homework"
Hyperbole
What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Stanza
"From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire"
- Robert Frost
Rhyme
What is the feeling a reader gets from a text when reading called?
Mood
What is the main message or idea of a poem called?
Theme
"But oh heart! Heart! Heart!
Repetition
"My heart shattered into pieces"
Metaphor
What is the unit called in poetry that makes up a stanze?
Hint: Think how many ______ are there in a stanza
Line
What is the point where one line ends in a poem and another line begins called?
Line break
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
What is the pattern of rhyme in a poem called?
Rhyme scheme
What do we call a person who writes poetry?
poet
What is the attitude of feeling an author creates in their writing called?
Tone
What is imagery that has to do with touch, taste, smell, sight or sound?
Sensory imagery
What is a metaphor that continues for several stanzas or the length of a poem called?
Ex: Fog poem
Extended metaphor
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What is the internal feel or beat of a poem called?
Rhythm
What is your final project for the poetry unit?
Poets research project
When you make an inanimate object a person you are doing what form of figurative language?
Personification
Free verse
What do we call a rhyme scheme where alternating lines rhyme with each other?
Ex. "The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day." - Robert Frost
ABAB rhyme scheme
These two lines have?
Ex. "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- Shakespeare
A group of lines within a poem is called a ?
Stanza