Figurative language
Compares two things using "Like" or "as"
Simile
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern
Free verse
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
A group of lines in poetry
A Stanza
I am so hungry I could eat a horse
Hyperbole
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and to praise something
Ode
Bee, be, B, I’d rather climb a tree, than learn to spell, the same old word, not just one way, but three
What is AABCA?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
Where a line of poetry ends
A line break
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
Personification
A poem that tells a story
A Narrative
What is the rhyme scheme? " Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.."
What is ABAAB?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
Bashful flowers/Blushing birds/Shadows tremble
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
Metaphor
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines
Sonnet
My baby brother is so small, He hasn’t even learned to crawl. He’s only been around a week, And all he seems to do is bawl and wiggle, sleep…and leak.
What is AABAB?
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts.
What is soliloquy?
My new car cost me an arm and a leg.
Idiom
A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past.
ballad
Who wrote the famous poem "Sonnet 18" ?
What is William Shakespeare?