Figurative Language
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?
What type of rhyme is in this poem?
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What is end rhyme?
A form of poetry that is written with verses free of all poetry rules.
What is free verse?
The implied attitude of the author in a poem.
What is tone?
Describe the imagery in this poem?
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
What is feeling the ladder sway, sending the tree branches bend, and hearing the rumbling sound?
What type of rhyme does the author use in this poem?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.
What is internal rhyme?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The feeling or atmosphere the author attempts to create in a poem for the reader.
What is mood?
What is the symbolism in this poem?
The Yesees said yes to anything
That anyone suggested.
The Noees said no to everything
Unless it was proven and tested.
So the Yesees all died of much too much
And the Noees all died of fright,
But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees
All came out all right.
What is Yesess and Noees symbolizing types of people?
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 Dumpty together again
What is repetition?
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?
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 tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
Describe the structure of this poem. What kind of poem is this?
Mellow, mild, May day,
calling children out to play.
Summer's on her way!
Patricia L. Cisco. "Mellow May."
What is 3 lines, 1 stanza, 5-7-5 syllable patterns?What is a Haiku?
Comparing two things by stating that something is something else.
What is a metaphor?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
What is ABAABCDB?
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
What is the theme of this poem?
You turn the kitchen
tap’s metallic stream
into tropical drink,
extra sugar whirlpooling
to the pitcher-bottom
like gypsum sand.
Purplesaurus Rex, Roarin’
Rock-A-Dile Red, Ice Blue
Island Twist, Sharkleberry Fin;
on our tongues, each version
keeps a section, like tiles
on the elemental table.
In ninth grade, Sandra
employed a jug of Black Cherry
to dye her straightened
bangs burgundy.
When toddlers swallow you,
their top lips mustache in color
as if they’ve kissed paint.
The trendy folks can savor
all that imported mango nectar
and health-market juice.
We need factory-crafted packets,
unpronounceable ingredients,
a logo cute enough to hug,
a drink unnaturally sweet
so that, on the porch,
as summer sun recedes,
Granddad takes out his teeth
to make more mouth to admit you.
What is the goodness and good use of Kool-Aid?
What is the rhyme scheme?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Dream by Langston Hughes
What is ABAB?
Describe the structure of this sonnet?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What is a 14 line poem with the rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
What is the tone of this poem?
When you’re up against a trouble,
Meet it squarely, face to face;
Lift your chin and set your shoulders,
Plant your feet and take a brace.
When it’s vain to try to dodge it,
Do the best that you can do;
You may fail, but you may conquer,
See it through!
What is determination?
In this poem the little egg and baby bird represents the birth and growth of a child. What is the literary device used here?
A little egg under her mother's wings.
Yet to be born into the world of things.
A crack and a pop, out she came.
Old and new, it was all the same.
Well nourished by mom, she began to sing.
Ready to learn of life and everything.
Innocence of new, she started up her flaps.
Not knowing of life and all its traps.
Mother watched on, with a big chuckle.
As she sprang out of the nest with no buckle.
Back and forth, she swayed on the ground.
As her mother watched for danger all around.
She tried and tried until that day.
Fly she did, but not in a graceful way.
The day came, like mother knew it would.
For her child to fly away, like she should.
What is symbolism?