Figurative Language
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
a row of words that ends for a specific reason, such as rhyme, rhythm, syllable count, or pacing
What is a line?
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
Create a 4 line poem with an AAAA rhyme scheme.
Various answers
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
Crash! Bang! Zoom! Hiss!
What is onomatopoeia
A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit. More specifically, usually is a group of lines arranged together in a recurring pattern of metrical lengths and a sequence of rhymes.
What is a stanza?
Poe uses words like "dreary," "bleak," "terrors," and "weary" to create a what type of mood?
What is scary?
Provide an example of alliteration.
Various answers
The sea whispered to me secrets from beneath the waves.
What is personification
A person who writes a poem.
What is a poet?
I hate that I can salvage nothing.
What is the tone of this line?
What is regret?
Come up with 3 words a poet could use to create a cheerful mood.
Various answers
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?
the author's attitude towards the subject, speaker, or audience of a poem
What is tone?
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?
Her eyes were pools of the deepest blue.
What is metaphor?
the emotional atmosphere created by the poet's word choice, subject matter, and tone, and the feelings it evokes in the reader
What is mood?
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
What is the tone of this line?
What is hopeful?
The bee buzzed in my ear and the boom of the fireworks scared the baby.
What is this an example of?
What is onomatopoeia?