Poetry
Devices
Devices
Tone
What is the attitude of the speaker?
A group of lines in a poem, or a verse.
What is stanza?
rhyme scheme
What is the pattern of rhymes in a poem assigned letters like AABBCCDD
What sound device does this line contain?
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the trick is over.
What is rhyme?
personification
What is giving human qualities to something not human
Mood
What is the feeling a reader gets
Speaker
What is the voice of the poem?
Connotations
What are emotional feelings associated with a word like positive, negative or neutral
What figurative language is here?
He goes on Sunday to the church, And hears his daughter's voice singing in the village choir, It sounds to him like his mother's voice singing in Paradise!
What is simile?
theme
What is the central idea or lesson learned
Simile
What is the comparison between two things using like or as?
Figurative language
What is language that expresses ideas or experiences vividly and is not literal
What sound device is used to create rhythm?
Each morning sees some task begin
Each evening sees it close
Each afternoon sees it through
What is repetition?
couplet
What is two lines of poetry that rhyme
Metaphor
What is the comparison between two things NOT using like or as?
Free verse
What is poetry with no set meter, rhyme scheme or pattern
Nikki Giovanni wrote "The Drum."
What is the poet?
Why are three ways poets create rhythm?
What are repetition, rhyme, rhyme scheme, meter, sound devices like alliteration, line breaks
alliteration
What is the repetition of initial sounds in words that are close together like "Sally sells seashells"
Meter
What is the pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables or beats in a poem?
Repetition
What is repeating words or sounds for meaning?
A small boy is the voice, or ________________, of the "Drum."
What is the speaker?
What are the differences in connotations between frugal and miserly, or stingy?
What is frugal has a positive connotation and miserly, or stingy, has a negative connotation.