Figurative Language
compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Sally sales seashells by the seashore
What is alliteration?
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is a stanza?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
What is ABAB?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
"Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is personification?
compares two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
A poem that follows a pattern and has rhyming.
What is traditional poetry?
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
may, say, lay, day, ray, and faye are examples of this
What is rhyme?
giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
What is personification?
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.
What is repetition?
a division of a poem similar to paragraphs
What is a stanza?
the way the poet or author sounds as he/she is writing
What is tone?
the repetition of beginning, internal, or ending consonant sounds together: The abandoned bird found a wide window in which to build his nest.
What is consonance?
She is a free bird.
What is a metaphor?
What is the rhyme scheme?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler,
long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAC?
What is a lyrical poem?
What lesson is being taught by the following statement?:
Jahiem took Abel's homework and Abel knew about it. Both boys were written up by the teacher and both received a zero on the assignment.
What is don't cheat?
the use of language to create mental images use sensory impressions
What is imagery?