Figurative Language
His smile is my kryptonite.
What is an allusion?
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
What is onomatopoeia?
A form of poetry without a clear pattern.
What is free verse?
The underlying message.
What is theme?
What is a stanza?
These shoes are killing my feet.
What is a hyperbole?
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 condensed use of vivid and descriptive words chosen for their sound and meaning.
What is a poem?
Generally determined through description or dialogue.
What is tone?
This type of literature can be considered less of a form, and more of a concept."
What is poetry?
On Friday nights, I am a night owl.
What is a metaphor?
“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?
The arrangement of words, lines, verses, rhymes, and other features in a poem.
What is form, structure, or stanza?
The creation of an emotion or feeling through words.
What is mood?
The heartbeat of a sonnet.
What is a iambic pentameter?
"As a great elm wallows before the storm, the woman heaves"
What is a simile?
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? "That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
What is repetition?
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
What is a sonnet?
They are both created with emotion, rhythm, and expression.
What is poetry and music?
Identify 3 instances of 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?
"Actions speak louder than words."
What is an idiom?
But blessed forms in whistling storms
Fly o’er waste fens and windy fields.
What is alliteration?
A pattern created with sounds: hard - soft, long - short, bouncy, quiet - loud, weak - strong
What is rhythm?
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 first thing you must do is have no fear. The second thing is to is read the title.
How do you read a poem?