Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
A 3-line poem that follows a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What is a haiku?
A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is a 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 7-line poem that uses nouns, verbs, and adjectives to contrast two topics.
What is a diamante poem?
The feeling that you get from a work of art or literature.
What is mood?
A group of words arranged in a row.
What is a line?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
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 poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase.
What is an acrostic poem?
What is the mood of the following poem?
A summer day is full of ease,
a bank is full of money,
our lilac bush is full of bees,
And I am full of honey.
What is happy or joyful?
When two or more words at the ends of lines sound the same.
What is rhyme?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I saw a black cat
Sleeping on a mat.
Curled up nice and tight
Ready for the night
What is AABB?
A 5-line poem using nouns, verbs, and adjectives to describe a a topic?
What is a cinquain poem?
What is the mood of the following poem?
I shut my door
To keep you out
Won't do no good
To stand and short
Won't listen to
A thing you say
What is mad or angry?
Language that is meant to be taken literally or for its normal meaning.
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I saw a cow
Lying in the grass,
Staring at the sun.
Peaceful
What is ABCD?
A poem that is shaped like the subject it describes
What is a concrete or shape poem?
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Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?