Poetry I
"She is cute as a button"
Simile
"Boom! Wham! Pow!"
Onomatopoeia
"I had a billion things to do for homework"
Hyperbole
"My heart shattered into pieces"
Metaphor
"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
What is the internal feel or beat of a poem called?
Rhythm
What is the attitude of feeling an author creates in their writing called?
Tone
When you make an inanimate object a person you are doing what form of figurative language?
Personification
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
Free verse
What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Stanza
What is the unit called in poetry that makes up a stanze?
Hint: Think how many ______ are there in a stanza
Line
What is imagery that has to do with touch, taste, smell, sight or sound?
Sensory imagery
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What do we call a person who writes poetry?
poet