A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
100
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200
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.
'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
200
A lyrical poem meant to be sung.
What is a song?
200
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
200
The repetition of vowel sounds in words that don't end with the same consonant.
What is assonance?
300
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
300
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?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
300
Roses are red
violets are blue
This example has 2 of what?
What is a line?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
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?
400
A type of poetic form that has two rhyming lines and about the same amount of syllables.
What is a couplet?
400
What tone is implied by this statement?
GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
400
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?"
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
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 ABAAB?
500
A poetic form that follows a specific set of lines/stanzas or a regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme.
What is traditional form?
500
Life can be difficult but you have to persevere. This is an example of________.