Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
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?
A comparison that is hinted at but not directly stated.
What is implied metaphor?
The use of descriptive words that appeal to the five senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, sound).
What is imagery?
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Stop beating around the bush and just tell me the bad news.”
What is an idiom?
A stanza with four lines.
What is Quatrain?
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?
Words that almost rhyme but not perfectly (e.g., crumb / home).
What is a slant rhyme?
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
Identify where the personification is in the poem: Try for 2 or 3 parts.
"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?
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?
Which poetic style is it called when you repeat a word or phrase at the beginning of lines (e.g., “When…”).
What is anaphora?
True friends are by your side
Through it all.
True friends are there
To catch you when you fall.
What is ABCB?
A poem written to someone or something that cannot respond.
What is Apostrophe (poetry).