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 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 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 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?
Extended metaphor
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What is placing two things that directly oppose each other near one another to compare the two things called?
Ex. "Love is like a soft cushion to sleep on while Hate is a stone"
Juxtaposition
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