Poetry I
"She is cute as a button"
Simile
"Boom! Wham! Pow!"
Onomatopoeia
"I had a billion things to do for homework"
Hyperbole
What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Stanza
"From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire"
- Robert Frost
Rhyme
What is the feeling a reader gets from a text when reading called?
Mood
What is the main message or idea of a poem called?
Theme
"But oh heart! Heart! Heart!
Repetition
"But thy eternal summer shall not fade"
Metaphor
What is the unit called in poetry that makes up a stanze?
Hint: Think how many ______ are there in a stanza
Line
If you are asked for the connotation of a word, you are being asked for the word's...
implied meaning/feeling/tone
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
What is the pattern of rhyme in a poem called?
Rhyme scheme
What do we call a person who writes poetry?
poet
What is the attitude of feeling an author creates in their writing called?
Tone
What is it called when the author/poet writes something that taps into our five senses?
Imagery
What is it called when one comparison is made throughout the entire poem?
Extended metaphor
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What is the internal feel or beat of a poem called?
Rhythm
Which type of poem features 19 lines where the first and third lines alternate repeating in each stanza?
Villanelle
When you make an inanimate object do something a person would do, you are doing what form of figurative language?
Personification
What is the figurative language term for a reference? For example, "And neither the angels in Heaven above / Nor the demons down under the sea"
Allusion
What do we call a rhyme scheme where alternating lines rhyme with each other?
Ex. "The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day." - Robert Frost
ABAB rhyme scheme
What is diction?
Word choice
What is the type of poem that tells a story?
Narrative poem