Figurative Language
"Crazy cats constantly chase curious critters."
What is alliteration?
A poem that tells a story and includes elements like plot, conflict and resolution.
What is a narrative poem?
The moral or lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem/story?
What is theme?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry?
Example: ABAB, AABB, ABCA
What is Rhyme Scheme?
A type of poetry without any kind of pattern, and does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
The attitude a poem implies from the writer?
What is tone?
A type of poem where certain letters spell out a word or phrase. Typically the first letter of each line, but can appear anywhere within the poem.
What is acrostic?
On a rainy and gloomy day, someone looks out of the window and says, "What beautiful weather we're having!"
What is verbal irony?
The rhyme in which the final accented VOWEL and all SUCCEEDING consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different.
Example: seed, need
What is Complete Rhyme?
A poem that is often set to music, and is sometimes set as love songs. It's often set to the rhyme scheme of ABAB.
What is a ballad?
The feeling or emotions the reader feels when reading a poem.
What is mood?
A poem type that is written to praise someone or something. It is usually expressive in emotion and often how a poet feels about something.
What is an ode?
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
Sometimes called an "imperfect rhyme".
The stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the PRECEDING vowel sounds DO NOT match.
Example: cat, cot
What is Partial Rhyme?
A poem that consists of 3 line stanzas and has 17 syllables. It is also often about nature or the seasons.
What is a Haiku?
A term that is used when a specific verse repeats throughout a poem.
What is refrain?
Identify where the personification is in the poem: (More than 1)
"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?
"It's raining cats & dogs!" is an example of?
What is an idiom?
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 type of poem that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines. Each line has TEN syllables.
What is a sonnet?
What type of Rhyme is this:
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping."
-From Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven,"
What is internal rhyme?
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?