Elements of Poetry
Our soldiers are as brave as lions
What is a simile?
Love is lime-green like two pickles squeaking together. What sense does this line appeal to?
What is sound?
Giving non-living things or animals human qualities. Ex. The light danced to Earth
What is personification?
A small part of a larger work; for example one chapter of a novel
What is an excerpt?
Shades of gray surround my eyes, No color in my life- Oh how I try Rain clouds above my head I just want to stay in bed
What is sadness?
These two lines are examples of what?
She had horses who were bodies of sand. She had horses who were maps drawn of blood.
What is a metaphor?
I opened the bedroom door and was overwhelmed by the thought of a basketball players socks that has been worn for a week without being washed. This appeals to what sense?
What is smell?
Comparing two things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Crazy Corbin caught five freaky fish Friday with wild William.
What is alliteration?
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?
What is having to go to bed when it is still daytime out when the seasons change?
"I have the measles and the mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps." What poetry element does this poem have?
What is rhyme?
The vibrant rainbow glistened as it cascaded from the bright blue sky to the emerald green grass below. What sense does this line appeal to?
What is sight?
A poem with no rhyme scheme or set pattern of beats
What is free verse?
The moral message or lesson of a story or poem
What is theme?
The lightning and thunder They go and come; But the stars and the stillness Are always at home.
What is home is safe and calm?
Bossy Bridgette likes to eat Bolivian brownies because she is a bad baker. What poetry element does this sentence show?
What is alliteration?
A paragraph in a poem that is larger than a line, but not the whole poem.
What is a stanza?
Words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definition; similes and metaphors are two examples.
What is figurative language?
The Story of Fidgety Philip ~Heinrich Hoffman "Let me see if Philip can Be a little gentleman; Let me see if he is able To sit still for once at table:" Thus Papa bade Phil behave; And Mamma looked very grave. But fidgety Phil, He won't sit still; He wriggles, And giggles, And then, I declare, Swings backwards and forwards, And tilts up his chair, Just like any rocking-horse- "Philip! I am getting cross!" See the naughty, restless child Growing still more rude and wild, Till his chair falls over quite. Philip screams with all his might, Catches at the cloth, but then That makes matters worse again. Down upon the ground they fall, Glasses, plates, knives, forks, and all. How Mamma did fret and frown, When she saw them tumbling down! And Papa made such a face! Philip is in sad disgrace. Where is Philip, where is he? Fairly covered up you see! Cloth and all are lying on him; He has pulled down all upon him. What a terrible to-do! Dishes, glasses, snapped in two! Here a knife, and there a fork! Philip, this is cruel work. Table all so bare, and ah! Poor Papa, and poor Mamma Look quire cross, and wonder how They shall have their dinner now.
What is you should listen and behave or something bad may happen?
The chair sat there waiting for me to sit down. What poetry element is shown in this sentence?
What is personification?
Words or sentences spoken by a character in a poem, play, or in a story
What is dialogue?
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get?
What is a simile?
At the Seaside ~Robert Louis Stevenson When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup, In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more.
What is digging in the sand at the beach?