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 physical structure of the
poem?
Think: the length of lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition.
Form
"Clary closed her cluttered clothes closet"
Alliteration
What is the pattern of rhyme in a poem called?
Rhyme scheme
This is a poem that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
Haiku
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 poem that has 14 lines, three quatrains and a final couplet?
Sonnet
"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
"Pull someone's leg"
idiom
From Annabel Lee, what type of figurative language is the following line:
"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams"
Hyperbole
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
What are two similar lines of poetry that end on the same sound?
Ex. "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- Shakespeare
Rhyming couplet
This is a poem made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains.
Villanelle