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?
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
What is rhyme?
A poem that celebrates the deeds of a hero.
What is an epic?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
Two lines of a verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
What is a couplet?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
A stanza of four lines; one having alternate rhymes
What is a quatrain?
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 verse or verses which are written to be spoken, usually by a character invented by the author himself
What is dramatic poetry?
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?
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses
What is imagery?
A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past.
What is a ballad?
What is the tone 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 confused/melancholy/scared.
What form of poetry is this?
The Lizard
The lizard is a timid thing
That cannot dance or fly or sing;
He hunts for bugs beneath the floor
And longs to be a dinosaur.
By John Gardner
What is a quatrain.