Definitions
A string of words in a poem
What is a line?
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
What is personification?
John’s answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution.
What is . . . John's fix was temporary, not permanent.
What is a stanza?
DAILY DOUBLE!
If I’m not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin.
What is an allusion?
The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
When a thing or abstract idea is represented as a person
What is personification?
A line of poetry containing punctuation at the end
What is an end-stopped line?
I can't go out tonight, I'm buried in a sea of paperwork.
What is a metaphor?
Her head was spinning from all the new information.
What is . . . the person was overwhelmed with the amount of new information they were learning/getting.
DAILY DOUBLE!
A reference to a person, object, or circumstance from unrelated context
What is an allusion?
Two lines of poetry in a stanza that usually rhyme
What is a couplet?
My teacher caught me cheating today, and my parents are going to kill me when they find out.
What is hyperbole?
She was living her life in chains.
What is . . . she felt controlled/held back/restricted by something in her life.
The opposite of what you would expect
What is irony?
A single slash is used when quoting poetry to show this
What is a line break?
The cast on Michael’s broken leg was a plaster shackle, painted by signatures in various colors.
What is a metaphor?
When I saw her, that was it for me. I’d been struck by Cupid.
What is . . . he felt immediately drawn to her romantically, in a way he couldn't control.
Explain the allusion in Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost:
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is . . . "Eden" from the "Garden of Eden". Biblical reference; refers to the seasonal turning of fall to winter, Eden "sinking to grief" as leaves fall away.