Identification One
Falling in love feels like a thousand crickets jumping around in my chest.
What is a simile?
Life is a highway.
What is a metaphor?
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
What is alliteration?
"But we loved with a love that was more than love—"
The italicized words are an example of...
What is repetition or alliteration?
The author of this sonnet is...
Who is William Shakespeare?
"Mother to Son" was written by...
Who is Langston Hughes?
This poem was written by...
Who is Kobe Bryant?
"She ruled in beauty o’er this heart of mine,"
What is hyperbole or imagery?
Lightning danced across the sky.
What is personification?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
The question mark is a __________.
What is end stop?
Choo choo
Buzz
Hizz
What is onomatopoeia?
"With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven..."
Seraphs of Heaven is an...
What is an allusion?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments, love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
The end rhymes are creating a...
What is a rhyme scheme?
This particular author wrote during the ____________________ Renaissance.
What is Harlem?
In the Great Western Forum is an example of a ____________.
What is allusion?
"She is divine"
What is a metaphor?
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
This is written in __________ verse.
What is free?
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
The lack of punctuation at the end of lines is a...
What is an enjambment?
"So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay"
Eden is an example of an...
What allusion?
"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams..."
The rhyming of beams and dreams is an example of...
What is internal rhyme?
"O no, it is an ever-fixed mark..." This is an example of a _______ comparing love to a permanent marking.
What is a metaphor?
"Mother to Son" is an extended metaphor comparing life to a...
What is a broken stair case?
But because YOU called me.
I did everything for YOU
Basketball is being compared to a real person. This is an example of...
What is personification?
"They weep within my heart; no ears they find"
The repetition of the 'e' sound is an example of...
What is assonance?
"I am nobody! Who are you?"
The exclamation point is considered a ___________.
What is a caesura?
"The old man walked down the street, down the street, down the street"
The phrase 'down the street' is an example of...
What is repetition?
The sky is very sunny. (A)
The children are funny. (A)
Under the tree we sit, (B)
But just for a bit. (B)
Th labels 'A' & 'B' are examples of a...
What is rhyme scheme?
"And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side..."
The repetition of the "I" sounds is an example of...
What is assonance?
What is the central message?
What is true love is constant, unwavering, eternal, and conquers all?
The format of this poem was ____________ verse.
What is free?
I never saw the end of the tunnel is an example of...
What is an idiom?
"...but dust and shade we are;"
What is a metaphor or imagery?
“The grass was green, and the flowers were red.”
What is imagery?
Be bold.
Be brief.
Be gone.
The repetition of the word 'be' is an example of a...
What is anaphora?
What is the main purpose of an end stop?
What is to show that a thought has ended?
"And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes..."
The author is using _________ to appeal to our sight
What is imagery?
"It is the star to every wand'ring bark..."
What is a "wand'ring bark"?
What is a lost ship?
Provide a theme statement for this poem. Don't forget about the theme statement formula!
What is In Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son," a theme that is prevalent throughout the poem is that you should never give up even when life is hard?
I fell in love with you.
A love so deep I gave you my all
From my mind & body
To my spirit & soul.
The author is using ____________ to appeal to the senses.
What is imagery?
What is the form of the Italian sonnets?
What is an octave and sestet?