Poetry Terms
A group of words together on one line of the poem is:
The message of the text
theme
Who is the speaker?
the mother
The spider's web is a ferris wheel
metaphor
Find the value of x in 3x + 5 = 20
5
the way the words appear on the page/poem
form
the feelings that are created in the text based on the author's word choice, imagery, etc
tone
What is the metaphor in the poem? _______ is being compared to ___________
Life is being compared to crystal stairs
Weston wistfully wishes winter would wrap up
alliteration
True or false: the moon is a star
False
A group of lines arranged together, aka a paragraph
stanza
Identify the rhyme scheme:
Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
How I wonder what you are!
A
A
B
B
A
A
Who wrote the poem?
Langston Hughes
Life is like a box of chocolates
simile
1/2 x bh
True or false: All poems have to rhyme
false
the PATTERN of rhyming words based on the ends of the line
rhyme scheme
The time period the poem was written in was known as the:
Harlem Renaissance
The wind whispered across the field of grass
personification
The first 10 amendments of the Consitution are known as:
The Bill of Rights
the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
rhythm
the repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
alliteration
What is the theme of the poem?
What is the message/theme of this poem?
"I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes, / But I laugh, / And eat well, / And grow strong.
Tomorrow, / I’ll be at the table / When company comes. / Nobody’ll dare / Say to me, / “Eat in the kitchen,” / Then.
Besides, / They’ll see how beautiful I am /And be ashamed— / I, too, am America."
- Langston Hughes
Keep hope/resilience in the face in the face of injustice/racism/discrimination
the sun