A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
100
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
200
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
200
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?
200
a literary device in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation; a symbolic representation of something else.
What is an Allegory?
200
the attitude or behavior the speaker has towards the subject matter.
What is tone?
200
Using Language to create a particular effect.
What is figurative language?
300
a metaphor that is applied throughout the entire poem
What is an extended metaphor?
300
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?
300
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
300
the feeling the poem creates for the reader
What is mood?
300
When the last syllable or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other.
What is an end rhyme?
400
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
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?
400
a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a hidden truth
What is a paradox?
400
What tone is implied by this statement?
GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
400
The order of the parts of a story or poem
What is structure?
500
Refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase
What is consonance?
500
What is the rhyme scheme?
Snow makes whiteness where it falls.
The bushes look like popcorn balls.
And places where I always play,
Look like somewhere else today.
What is AABB?
500
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?
500
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage:
Let me fetch sticks,
Let me fetch stones,
Throw me your bones,
Teach me your tricks.
What is ABBA?
500
Please recite one line from the Poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling