Figurative Language
What does it mean?
Poetic Form 1
Poetic Form 2
Types of Poems
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Jack ran like the wind.
This simile shows that...
Jack is fast
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Explain the meaning of the idiom: Larger than life
Someone has a big personality
An object is much bigger than it realistically should be
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Explain rhyme using your own examples
varies
100
How many syllables are in this question?
11
100
A poem without rules is called by this name.
What is Free Verse?
200
Till all the seas gone dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands of life shall run
This is best an example of:
a. imagery/5 senses
b. hyperbole/exaggeration
B
200
Explain the oxymoron
"Alone together"
People are spending quality time together, but separated from a large group
200
Explain meter using your own example
Varies
200
What is the rhyme scheme?
I took a look at the clock.
I heard it go tick tock.
My heart skipped a beat.
It wasn't that neat.
Of my life, I'd better take stock.
AABBA
200
Nursery Rhymes usually have a _________ scheme.
What is rhyme?
300
The rose was equipped, like a knight with several swords.
What does this simile mean?
The rose has thorns
300
What could the color blue symbolize?
answers vary
300
A poetic paragraph is called a
Stanza
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How many stanzas are in this poem?
2
300
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA
Meter: 77557
This 5 lined poem is called...
What is a limerick?
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The lightbulb fades.
I can't see the memories
anymore.
Grandchildren growing old two.
What will they remember?
My legacy.
The metaphors and imagery in these lines show us that the speaker is...
A grandparent, someone getting old and losing their memory
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What tone is created by the repetion in this poem?
He did it. He did it.
He'd gotten first place.
I came in second
In this race.
Woe is me. Woe is me.
It shows that the speaker is surprised or upset.
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Define syllable.
The number of sounds in a word, or line of poetry.
(do not accept examples as an answer)
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What structural elements of a poem could be a rule?
Meter
Rhyme Scheme
Number of Lines in a stanza
400
This poem would use letters and may have several instances of assonance and consonance.
ABC poem or Acrostic
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What does this figurative language described?
The rough waves rolled up and smacked the pier fiercely.
The wind knocked me over.
The gray clouds warned of something terrible.
Stormy weather.
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I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow.
What do angels represent here?
a-The weather
b-Youth, childhood, innocence
B
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What is the rhyme scheme and meter of these 3 lines?
Never again, never again
Will there be
Another as wise and sincere as me.
ABB and 8-3-10
500
What is the rhyme scheme and meter of these lines?
As long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
AA and 10-10
500
This type of poem might be set to music. It could be free verse, but it also might rhyme. Usually you listen to it, instead of reading it.
What is a song?