Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
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?
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice,
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold to those who favor fire.
What is ABCA?
A type of literature where words are carefully chosen and arranged to create a certain effect.
What is poetry?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
A row of words in a poem.
What is a line?
A metaphor that carries the comparison through several lines or an entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
What figurative language tool is used in this statement?
Quack-quack went the ducks s we threw them our stale bread.
What is onomatopoeia?
All other forms of writing that are not in verse form.
What is prose?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
The pattern of rhyme in a poem marked with letters (ABAB).
What is rhyme scheme?
The repetition of beginning sounds in words.
What is alliteration?
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?
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?
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?
Why did the ghostly ghost say boo?
It got a closer look at you.
Why did the monster screech and scream?
It saw your face inside a dream.
What is AABB?
The creation of words that imitate the same sound it represents.
What is onomatopoeia?
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?
The main subject of a poem.
What is a topic?