Figurative Language
Poetic device/figure of speech that compares two things using "like", "as" or "than"
What is a simile?
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
(Bonus 150 points if you can tell me what kind)
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
What is a view about life that is not directly stated? A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is the theme?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
Poetic device/figure of speech such as "I am so hungry I could eat a horse!"
What is 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?
What is is a fun, humorous poem that consists of 5 lines in a rhyming pattern of AABBA that typically has an anecdote about a named individual.
What is a limerick?
What is the writer's position or implied beliefs in a poem?
What is tone?
What are words that sound as they are spelled?
What is onomatopoeia?
Poetic device/figure of speech comparing two things without using "like", "as" or "than"
What is a metaphor?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem 'On top of spaghetti / All covered with cheese /I lost my poor meatball / When somebody sneezed. / It rolled off the table / And onto the floor / And then my poor meatball / Rolled out of the door.'
What is ABCB DEFE?
What are the two main/primary types of poetry?
What is lyric and narrative poetry?
What is the feeling or atmosphere of a poem a reader observes based on their reading?
What is mood?
What is a play on words, that has multiple or varied meanings of interpretations?
What is a pun?
Poetic device/figure of speech such as "the flame of the candle danced in the wind."
What is personification?
What is the rhyme scheme 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 ABAAB?
What is a traditional Japanese poem containing 3 short lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively?
What is haiku?
What mood is implied by this quote? Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference
Explain why.
What is contentment, happiness, hopefulness? (Answers can be approved at teacher's discretion)
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?
The practice of giving a non-human thing, human characteristics like emotion, body-parts or behaviours.
What is personification?
What is the rhyme scheme? There once was a loony old goat / Who wanted to sail on a boat / Across seven seas / With a trained crew of fleas / Wearing an old Captain's long coat.
What is AABBA?
What form of poetry has the following characteristics: short stanzas like paragraphs in a story, 4 lines per stanza (known as a quatrain), intended to tell a story (is a form of narrative poetry), lines 2 and 4 have to rhyme, traditionally set to music?
What is a ballad?
The practice of continually stating something over again and again throughout the text.
What is repetition?
Identify two onomatopoeias in the following quote. What a world of merriment their melody foretells! / How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, / In the icy air of night! / While the stars that oversprinkle / All the heavens, seem to twinkle / With a crystalline delight;
What is tinkle, twinkle