Sound Devices
Imagery & Figurative Language
Types of Poetry
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Meaning
100
the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of lines
What is end rhyme?
100
"Childhood" by Margaret Walker uses this type of imagery: When I was a child I knew red miners/dressed raggedly and wearing carbide lamps.
What is sight imagery?
100
"Childhood" by Margaret Walker is an example of this type of poetry.
What is lyric poetry?
100
This is the attitude an author conveys through word choice.
What is tone?
100
a poetic paragraph
What is a stanza?
200
"The Sound of Night" by Maxine Kumin uses alliteration to convey this mood: ...while night nickers around us. Crickets/chorus hallelujahs; paws, quiet/and quick as raindrops, play on the stones/expertly soft, run past and are gone;/fish pulse in the lake; the frogs hoarsen.
What is an excited mood?
200

Grandpa lounged on the raft in the middle of the pool like an old battleship is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a simile?
200
a type of lyric poem that praises a person or thing
What is an ode?
200
This is the author's message or lesson.
What is theme?
200
when one line ends and the next line begins
What is a line break?
300
"The Sound of Night" by Maxine Kumin uses this sound device in the following line: And now the dark comes on, all full of chitter noise .
What is onomatopoeia?
300

His cotton candy words did not appeal to her taste - is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a metaphor?
300
a poem that uses dialogue and tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
300
This is when you must analyze the poem beyond its literal meaning. 
What is connotation?
300
words that rhyme within the same line
What is internal rhyme?
400
The woods are lovely and dark/But I have promises to keep/and miles to go before I sleep/and miles to go before I sleep is an example of what sound device?
What is repetition?
400

Patty drank from a bottomless glass of Kool-Aid - is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a hyperbole?
400
a 14-line poem with three quatrains and one couplet
What is a sonnet?
400
Changes in a speaker's tone or topic is an example of this.
What is a shift?
400

My little girl is nested/within her tiny bed/with amber ringlets crested/around her dainty head - is an example of this point of view.

What is first person point of view?
500
The railroad track is miles away/And the day is loud with voices speaking/Yet there isn't a train that does by all day/But I hear its whistle shrieking is an example of what rhyme scheme?
What is ABAB?
500

Justice is blind and, at times, deaf - is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is personification?
500
This type of poetry uses first person point of view and reveals the speaker's thoughts and innermost feelings.
What is lyric poetry?
500
In this part of the analysis, you must hashtag the main idea of each stanza.
What is paraphrase?
500

But John Henry said, "Captain, just you stand aside- It's nothing but my hammer catching wind, Lord, Lord It's nothing but my hammer catching wind.

The purpose of the following metaphor is to

A. call to mind the cooling wind

B. give the reader a mental image of the hammer

C. suggest the pace of John Henry's hammering

D. help the reader imagine the coolness of the metal hammer

What is C. suggest the pace of the hammer
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