Poetic Terms
What is a metaphor?
A figure of speech that compares one object with another
What is the person who calls a poem called?
What is the poem, I Was Only Nineteen about?
- horrors of war
- youth going to war
- Australias soldiers at war
- aftermath of a war
'Sophie is beautiful like a rose in spring' uses what poetic technique?
What is the difference between alliteration and assonance?
alliteration - repetition of consonant sounds
assonance - repetition of vowel sounds
'I am so hungry I could eat a horse' is an example of which poetic technique?
hyperbole
What is a sentence in a poem called?
line
What is the poem My Country all about?
- A poet's love for Australia
- describe the land and life of Australia
Metaphor
Repetition of similar sounding words found at the end of a line is which poetic technique?
Rhyme
Provide an example of personification
The answer must give the object human-like qualities
A stanza refers to what?
paragraphs of a poem
What is the structure of a Haiku poem?
Three lines
Line 1 - 5 syllables
Line 2 - 7 syllable s
Line 3 - 5 syllables
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.'
Uses poetic device?
Rhyme
What is the difference between metaphor and simile?
Metaphor - makes a comparison one thing is said to be another thing
"poppy bruise"
"she is a lion"
Simile - makes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'
"my bruise was shaped like a poppy"
"she was as brave as a lion"
What is a similie
A comparison between two things using the words 'like' or 'as'
Create a Haiku about Summer
students must use correct structure
1 - 5
2 - 7
3 - 5
What is the effect of repetition of the lines "Gold help me, I was only nineteen' in the poem I Was Only Nineteen?
- repetition is used to add emphasis on the main ideas of the poem
- Repetition is used throughout the song to reinforce that the boy was only 19 and yet he was still being exposed to the horrors and brutality of war. Only God can save him..
Spell the figurative language term that refers to sounds -bam, splash, crash, boom!
onomatopoeia
Name one of the themes presented in I was only nineteen.
- trauma
- war
- a soldier's struggle to cope with what war had done to him
- spiritual and moral decay of the individual after conflict
The repetition of a vowel sound is the poetic technique?
assonance
What is the structure of a short answer response?
thesis statement
p.1
p.2
Find three different poetic techniques in this verse:
Like a small boat on the ocean
Sending big waves into motion
Like how a single word
Can make a heart open
I might only have one match
But I can make an explosion
simile
hyperbole
rhyme
Why is the use of personification effective in My Country? What are we encouraged to imagine, think or feel? Provide one example from the poem.
The poet personifies Australia by using words like "she" and "her". By doing this the reader gets a feeling that Australia is not just a lifeless piece of land, "she" is in many ways similar to a human capable of "beauty", "terror" and "love".
Example: "her beauty and her terror"; "All you who have not loved her, You will not understand"