Figurative Language
Crash, boom, bang is an example of this type of figurative language
What is a onomatopoeia?
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 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 poem that has rhyming words at the end of a sentence and repeats?
What is a couplet?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
Use of clues or hits that suggest what will happen
What is foreshadowing?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What figurative language is "It's raining cats and dogs"?
What is idiom?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
A word that makes people feel good
What is positive connotation
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 5 lines and lines 1,2, and 5 rhyme
What is a limerick?
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 17 syllables
What is a Haiku?
In the poem the author states: If I had been blindfolded, I should have supposed I was alone instead of walled in by four thousand people.
The author uses the words walled in by four thousand people to create a image of?1. a large enclosed space
2. a friendly party
3. an angry march
What is negative connotation