Figurative Language
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
stanza
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.
A sentence continues over more than one line of poetry.
Enjambment
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)
Imagery
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles
Which poetic device is used here?
Water plops into pond splish-splash downhill warbling magpies in tree trilling, melodic thrill
Onomatopeia
Words that have the same ending sound
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
Which poetic device is used here?
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Imagery
What tone is implied by these lines?
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
Ms. Bolton will determine if you answer makes sense.
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?"
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
He sank like the Titanic.
Hint: Not looking for simile
What is Allusion?
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?
What is the theme of this poem?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
The person speaking in the poem, like the narrator in prose - not always the poet
Speaker