Elements of Poetry
A group of lines arranged together in a poem is called.
What is a stanza?
What is 14?
A comparison between two things that are not alike.
And give an example.
What is metaphor?
What type of figurative language is it and What does it reveal?
That test was a piece of cake.
Idiom
What is the test was very easy.
A competition where original poems are presented.
What is a poetry slam?
the name of the narrator in poetry.
What is the speaker?
The meaning of sonnet.
What is little song?
Exaggerating as a way to make a point.
And give an example
What is hyperbole?
What type of figurative language is it and what does it mean?
Idris Means Immortal
Symbolism
This reveals the person has a powerful personality as part of their identity as represented in their name.
The location of the first poetry slam.
What is Chicago?
This is the universal moral or lesson in a poem.
What is theme?
Common themes in sonnets (Name three)
Giving something non-human, human qualities.
And give an example.
What is personification?
What type of figurative language is it and What does it reveal?
I am birthed from resilience.
Personification
What is I have had to overcome a lot of challenges growing up?
The year the first poetry slam took place.
1984.
ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG is an example of what.
What is rhyme scheme?
The famous English Playwright whose sonnets we studied.
Who is William Shakespeare?
An expression that has special meaning. The words used are often not literal.
And give an example.
What is idiom?
What types of figurative language is it and What does it reveal?
Lady Liberty needs glasses
Personification and Idiom
What is that there is unequal freedom in America that people are ignorant to.
The historical purpose of poetry slams.
What is to protest injustice, specifically during the black rights movement?
The difference between tone and mood.
What is tone is how the author feels about the topic they are writing about while mood is the emotional response the author creates in the audience?
The name of the meter in Shakespearean sonnets that sounds like a heartbeat.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect reference.
What is allusion?
What type of figurative language is it and What does it reveal?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Metaphor
The speaker is comparing another person to the pleasantness of summer and how it makes them feel happy just like a summer day might.
Poetry slams inspired these two genres.
What are Hip Hop and Punk music?