Poetry Devices
Poetry Examples
Poetry Themes
Poetry Structure
FUN!
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What literary device is this an example of?
Jonny has a heart of stone.
Metaphor
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What kind of poem is this?
"The sky is so blue, the sun is so warm up high, I love the summer"
Haiku
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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.
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What is a line in poetry?
A group of words in a poem
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What year did Steveston and London merge?
The two schools merged in 2007.
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What literary device is this an example of?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
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What kind of poem is this?
Tree.
The Trees.
Keep me free.
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in the breeze.
Concrete Poem
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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
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What is a stanza in poetry?
a group of lines; a paragraph in poetry.
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What sport did I play in high school?
Ultimate Frisbee
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Define a rhyme scheme.
A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
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What type of poem is this?
I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser
Midnights become my afternoons
When my depression works the graveyard shift
All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room
I should not be left to my own devices
They come with prices and vices
I end up in crisis (tale as old as time)
I wake up screaming from dreaming
One day I'll watch as you're leaving
'Cause you got tired of my scheming
Music
(Taylor Swift Anti-Hero)
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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.
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What is a couplet?
Two lines successive rhyming lines.
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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
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What type of poem is this?
A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.
Haiku
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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
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What is a pentameter?
Five metrical feet in a line.
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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
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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.
Sonnet
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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
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What is a meter?
A group of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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What is this country?
United States of America (Hawaii)