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?
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 lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
Hint: Church
What is an ode/hymn?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts.
What is an aside?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
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?" 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?
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?
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 the dialogue?
"They plan to kill General Washington." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me everything at once."
What is urgent/serious/important?
What form of poetry is this? Why?
"With a heavy heart I say goodbye
To a faithful friend, a great ally,
A car I've driven for ten whole years
You have brought me joy, and just a few tears.
We've been through a lot together, you and me.
You saw a union of two become a family of three.
But now there are four, and you are quite small
And it's getting too hard to carry us all.
You have a tiny boot and you're just a three door.
I have to lay my baby's buggy across the floor
So now you must go to pastures new,
But rest assured I will never forget you."
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.