Know your words
What is personification?
What is the tone of Mirror?
detached, omniscient
A four line stanza is also referred to as a what?
Quatrain
"Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish" is what type of figurative language?
Simile
"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately"
A mirror reflects only what is directly in front of it, nothing else.
What is the definition of assonance?
repetition of vowels sounds
What is the theme of Mirror?
People will never be satisfied with themselves.
What is the rhyme scheme of the follow stanza?
"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?"
ABAB
"Now I am a lake." is an example of what piece of figurative language?
Metaphor
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
Love can still shine through poems that he has written
What is an apostrophe?
an exclamatory passage that addresses someone that is not there or is dead.
What is the tone of Since brass, nor stone, nor boundless sea?
Loving/calm
What type of poem is Since brass, nor stone, nor boundless sea?
Sonnet
"O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
Beauty fades and as it fades we become more obsessed with making sure we haven't lost it.
How many syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter
10
How does time relate to love in Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea?
time washes away all love but if recorded it can be kept forever
What type of poem lacks a rhyme scheme?
free/blank verse
"This could mean soup or risotto" is a metaphor for what?
different kinds of positive outcomes in life.
"It’s there when you clean up
and rinse the wine glasses and make
a joke, and you leave the minutest
whiff of it on the light switch,
later, when you climb the stairs."
The things that happen to you in life stick with you good or bad.
In the poem Onion, what does the word Nacreous mean?
Looking pearl like or iridescent
What does “Onion” suggest about the complexities and challenges of human relationships?
People have many layers much like an onion
What is the meter of a sonnet
iambic pentameter
In the poem Onion, an onion is a metaphor for what?
Being human/life
Shall time’s best jewel from time’s chest lie hid?
a coffin