Poetry Devices
What literary device is this an example of?
Jonny has a heart of stone.
Metaphor
What kind of poem is this?
"The sky is so blue, the sun is so warm up high, I love the summer"
Haiku
What is a possible theme of the following poem?
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Did u hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete / Proving nature’s laws wrong / it learned 2 walk without having feet / Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams it learned 2 breathe fresh air / Long live the rose that grew from concrete / when no one else even cared!
Overcoming obstacles, survival, and determination.
What is a line in poetry?
A group of words in a poem
Define a rhyme scheme.
A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What literary device is this an example of?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
What kind of poem is this?
Tree.
The Trees.
Keep me free.
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in the breeze.
Concrete Poem
What is a possible theme of the following poem?
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged1 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 [5]To where it bent in the undergrowth;Q12
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted3 wear; Though as for that the passing there [10]Had worn them really about the same,Q2
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden4 black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, [15]I doubted if I should ever come back.Q3
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, [20]And that has made all the difference.Q4
Making choices, feeling uncertain
What is a stanza in poetry?
a group of lines; a paragraph in poetry.
What is a poem written in a way that forms a shape?
Concrete Poem
What literary device is this an example of?
"All day its dark, slick bronze soaks in a mossy place, Its teeth, a multitude set for the comedy that never comes."
Imagery
What type of poem is this?
There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
Limerick
What is a possible theme of the following poem?
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.Q1 [5]Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden1 sank to grief, So Dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.Q2
Changing seasons, death is inevitable, change is constant, rebirth, & beauty in the world.
What is a couplet?
Two lines successive rhyming lines.
The repetition of words or phrases in a poem is called-
Refrain
What literary device is this an example of?
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or–
Huh? You say it’s mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!
Irony
What type of poem is this?
When the gods created Gilgamesh they gave him a perfect body. Shamash the glorious sun endowed him with beauty, Adad the god of the storm endowed him with courage, the great gods made his beauty perfect, surpassing all others, terrifying like a great wild bull. Two thirds they made him god and one third man.
Epic
What is a possible theme of the following poem?
To Catch a Fish
It takes more than a wish to catch a fish you take the hook you add the bait [5]you concentrate and then you wait you wait you wait but not a bite the fish don’t have[10]an appetite so tell them what good bait you’ve got and how your bait can hit the spot [15]this works a whole lot better than a wish if you really want to catch [20]a fish
Problem-solving, overcoming obstacles, a new perspective
What is a pentameter?
Five metrical feet in a line.
What is a line in which the idea or sentence runs on to the next line?
enjambment
What literary device is this an example of?
When Eve walked among the animals and named them—nightingale, red-shouldered hawk, fiddler crab, fallow deer—
I wonder if she ever wanted them to speak back, looked into their wide wonderful eyes and whispered, Name me, name me.
Allusion
Eve is a reference to the bible Eve
What type of poem is this?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet
What theme does the poem reflect?
Walk One Mile
Did you ever stop walking and take a look down at the feet that pass by in your city or town? Sneakers and flip-flops and loafers and heels, sandals and boots — even footwear with wheels. These aren’t simply shoes stepping onto a bus.
In them are people with hearts just like us. What are their lives like? How can we know? First we might start with a gentle “hello.
Empathy, understanding new perspectives, community
What is a meter?
A group of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is a long narrative poem about a hero's adventures and feats, often from a distant past?
An Epic