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
What type of figurative language: He was as silly as a clown.
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 type of figurative language: "But oh heart! Oh heart! Oh Heart!
anaphora
"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 type of figurative language: Oh the love I feel, Oh the love I have, Oh how I love him.?
anaphora
"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
What is imagery that has to do with touch, taste, smell, sight or sound?
Sensory imagery
What type of figurative language: The classroom was a zoo.
metaphor
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What type of figurative language: And the light was so bright, but the room was so cold, and the feeling was so warm, but the time had gone"
Polysyndeton
When is your exam, and what does it cover?
When you make an inanimate object a person you are doing what form of figurative language?
Personification
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 type of figurative language: She smiled at the field that spread a mile high.
assonance
A group of lines within a poem is called a ?
Stanza