What is Poetry?
What are the three "R" ingredients of poetry?
Rhyme, repetition, and rhytm.
What words tell you if something is in "first-person"?
I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, and ours.
What are the five senses?
Sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste.
What does someone mean if they say, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"?
I'm REALLY hungry!
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a group of lines called in a poem?
Stanza
Mrs. Cogbill and Ms. Buchman went to the store.
What point of view is this example
third person
"Are aardvarks anxious" is the use of which figurative language?
a. Anaphora
b. Alliteration
c. Simile
b. Alliteration - the repetition of sounds at the beginning of several words in order or near one another
What does someone mean if they say, "It's raining cats and dogs"?
It's raining A LOT!
What word rhymes with book?
a. Dock
b. Cook
c. Reread
b. Cook.
"I'm a poet
And I didn't even know it!"
What do the words "poet" and "it" have in common?
They have the same ending sound... They rhyme!
What words tell you if something is in "third-person"?
He, she, it, him, her, his, hers, its, they, them, their, and theirs.
How do you know something is a simile and not a metaphor?
Similes use the words "like" and "as". Metaphors do not.
What does someone mean if they say, "Hit the lights"?
Turn the lights on or off.
Finish this simile:
"Yandel's cat is ___ fast ___ a cheetah!"
"Yandel's cat is AS fast AS a cheetah.
What is a stanza break?
A break between stanzas.
Is the following sentence first-person, second-person, or third-person?
Edward loves playing with his action figures.
Third-person.
What is this an example of?
She sells seashells by the seashore
alliteration
Is this a simile or metaphor?
"The thunder rumbled like a roaring lion."
Simile.
What 2 things are being compared?
"The fog comes
on little cat feet."
Fog and cat.
Give an example of an anaphora?
answers will vary
Which word DOESN'T belong?
a. I
b. they
c. me
b. They
What is this an example of?
Life is an adventure
Life is a new Love
Life is a tragedy
a. Anaphora
b. Alliteration
c. Simile
a. Anaphora - the repetition of words at the start of a series of lines in a poem
Give an example of a simile or metaphor.
Answers vary.
Give an example of repetition
answers will vary