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 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 stanza?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
(1) I heard a bird sing (2) In the dark of December.
(3) A magical thing (4) And sweet to remember.
(5) We are nearer to Spring (6) Than we were in September,
(7) I heard a bird sing (8) In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
A Japanese poem about nature.
What is a haiku?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts.
This was also a Greek and Latin word.
What is soliloquy?
Comparing 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 in which the first letter of each line spells a word or phrase which is the topic of the poem.
What is an acrostic poem?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
Something that stands for or represents something else.
What is a symbol?
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 forms a shape.
What is a concrete or form poem?
What tone is implied by this statement: GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
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?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage:
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?
A humorous music-feeling poem that often times makes fun of or tells a story about a specific poem.
What is a limerick?
What is the theme of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost?
What is that people will be confronted with hard decisions will they will be defined by the choices that they make.
*or something very similar*
What form of poetry is this?
A creature of charm is the gerbil Its diet's exclusively herbal; It grazes all day On bunches of hay Passing gas with an elegant burble.
What is a limerick?