What is poetry?
Definition of poetry.
What is an expression of feelings and ideas using distinctive style?
This is an example: Sam sells sandwiches on Sunday.
What is alliteration?
Comparing to unlike things using using like or as.
What is a simile?
"The ocean danced in the moonlight"
What is personification?
The feeling the reader gets from the poem.
What is mood?
Swish is an example.
What is onomatopoeia?
Words, phrases or complete lines repeated to emphasize something and/or create rhythm.
What is repetition?
"An emerald is as green as grass."
What is a simile?
The attitude the writer takes towards the subject, characters, etc.
What is tone?
During the first read of a poem.
What is absorb the language and feeling?
The beat created by the sounds and words in a poem.
What is rhythm?
Comparing two unlike things with a direct comparison.
What is a metaphor?
"And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep"
What is repetition?
The author's overall message.
What is theme?
The voice of the poem.
Who is the speaker?
The most common sound device in poetry.
What is rhyme?
Giving human characteristics to something that is non-human.
What is personification?
"I have a million things to do for homework"
What is a hyperbole?
Poets use these 2 types of descriptive words.
What are adjectives and adverbs?
The time and place of a poem.
What is the setting?
A poem that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
Exaggerated claims that are not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
"The night is a big black cat."
What is a metaphor?
Analyzing the poem will help discover the deeper meaning. (Also, called the ?)
What is the theme?