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 type of poem has 5 lines, 1 stanza, and rhyme pattern AABBA?
Limerick
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 type of poem has 3 lines and the 5-7-5 syllable rule?
Haiku
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
Poetry that has no set meter or beat: tries to capture that beauty of ordinary sounds in speech.
Free Verse
What is the attitude of feeling an author creates in their writing called?
Tone
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
Idiom
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
"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
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
What figurative language is this?
Ex. "Love is like a soft cushion to sleep on while Hate is a stone"
Simile
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
What is the speaker of a poem called in poetry?
The voice