Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
What type of figurative language is being used in the following:
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?
Originated in Japan and is only 3 lines
What is a haiku?
The attitude of a poem (author)
What is tone?
Images that are created in the mind while reading or looking at art.
What is imagery?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Her voice was quiet and soothing, like a gentle breeze on a warm summer day.”
What is simile?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem. (How the reader feels.)
What is mood?
An obvious and deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, intended for effect and not to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
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?
Zig-zagging down the road
Trying not to stray over the center line
Or hit a curb
Or break an axle
Or flatten a tire
Or wind up in the next surprise sinkhole.
Driving in Toledo is not a sport
For the timid or the sane or the under-insured.
The above poem follows this type of format.
What is free verse?
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?
The form of poetry that "Charge of the Light Brigade" follows.
What is a narrative?
Which of the following is an example of a TONE?
HOPE, HOPING, HOPEFUL, or HOPING FOR CHANGE
What is hopeful?
The beat or rhythm in poetry is referred to as this.
What is meter?