Poetry Terms 1
This is the voice that communicates with you as you read the poem.
Nature's first green is gold
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
What two poetry devices are used in this line:
How he teeters, skitters, tingles, teases
a robin is ruffling its feathers
What is the letter "R"
You raise the top of your desk
and take out an apple
What is "The Hand"
The repetition of the same sound in two or more words.
What is rhyme
You don't raise your hand and there is
some essential beauty in your fingers
What is "The Hand"
What device is used in these lines:
And be one traveler,
And looked down one as far as I could
What is parallel structure
Everything. Contained in this classroom
What is the letter "C"
And whip three hot strikes burning down the heavens
What is "To Satch"
This descriptive figurative language uses the five senses.
What is imagery
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
What is "The Road Not Taken"
What device is used here:
A single flow'r he sent me since we met
All tenderly his messenger he chose
What is a metaphor
They begin beating it with a hose
What is the letter "B"
So dawn goes down to day
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
The repetition of the initial consonant at the beginning of a word.
What is alliteration
Nothing. When you are not present
how could something significant occur?
What is "Did I Miss Anything?"
What device is used in this line:
Her Hardest Hue to Hold
What is alliteration
Poised between going on and back, pulled
What is the letter "P"
I knew the language of the floweret
What is "One Perfect Rose"
This is when the poet gives human qualities to an animal, object or idea.
What is personification
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide.
What is "Introduction to Poetry"
This is when the pattern of rhyme in a poem can be assigned a letter like a, b, or c.
What is rhyme scheme
Love long has taken for his amulet.
What is the letter "L"
Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball
What is "The Base Stealer"