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
Comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'
Simile
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
What the poem is mostly about
Main Idea
a common phrase that does not literally mean what it says
idiom
What is the unit called in poetry that makes up a stanze?
Hint: Think how many ______ are there in a stanza
Line
reference to something in literature, history, or culture
allusion
"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
An extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
What is a metaphor that continues for several stanzas or the length of a poem called?
Ex: Mother to Son
Extended metaphor
"The dog sang along with the ambulance"
personification
What is the internal feel or beat of a poem called?
Rhythm
two or more words having the same consonant sound at the beginning of the word
alliteration
When you make an inanimate object a person you are doing what form of figurative language?
Personification
Free verse
"She has been feeling blue lately"
idiom
Anything that stands for something else. Something that represents an idea, person, place, thing other than what it literally is
Symbol
A group of lines within a poem is called a ?
Stanza