Figurative Language
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The number of syllables in a line and how they are accented creates the poems "beat" or rhythm.
What is meter?
I was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets!
What is a hyperbole?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? ...
What is ...?
A comparison between two unlike 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 tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
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 type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is a stanza?
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "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 bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration ?
Words that sound like the object or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia??
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?