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 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?
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?
Define internal rhyme.
What is rhyme within a line?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
What is the rhyme scheme:
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 ABCB?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What is the figurative language used and what is the literal meaning of: John's suggestion was just a Band-Aid for the problem.
What is metaphor? And, John's suggestion was just a quick fix. It would not solve the problem in the long run.
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
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?
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?
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
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?
What is used to emphasize key ideas?
What is a repetition?
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?
"The ball is in your court" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is an idiom?