Vocabulary -
Poetic Devices
Vocabulary -
Poem Types
What is it?
Poetic Devices
What is it?
Poem Types
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What is alliteration?
Alliteration is when a few or more words in a line have the same first sound. Tongue twisters often use alliteration. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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Which of these items could NEVER be a poem: song, nursery rhyme, shopping list, single word?
Well ... technically they could ALL be poems, but most unusual would be a one-word poem!!
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Is this a simile or not? Explain. // The beautiful, shimmering lake water was as blue as your eyes. // //*You will get double points if you can also identify what figurative language is at play here ...//
No, this is NOT a simile. It is a comparison of COLOR. // blue water = blue eyes
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Seagulls: // Catching the sea breeze/ white wings glide above the waves./ Seagulls soar... Freedom!//
This is a haiku.
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Make a couplet using ONE pair of words:// test, best // OR // fly, pie// OR house, mouse
A couplet has two lines, with the rhyming words at the end of each line. // Examples: // Whenever there's a test/ You must do your very best. // It seemed there was a berry in my pie, But when I took a bite I found it was a fly! // Wherever there's a messy house, You're sure to find a busy mouse.//
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What is personification?
Personification is when a non-living thing is described as if it had human emotions and actions.
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What is a limerick?
A limerick is a form of nonsense verse (a silly poem), which has 5 lines and the rhyme scheme A-A-B-B-A. The 3rd and 4th line are usually a bit shorter than the other lines.
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Identify the two poetic devices in this sentence: The watermelon was as red as a clown's nose, and tasted like sunshine.
There are two similes in this sentence: // watermelon color = clown's nose color (red) // watermelon taste = sunshine
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BillyBob has a big nose/ When he sleeps, it looks like a hose/ It whistles like a choo choo train/ It's so loud it hurts my brain/ I plug it up with tissue and fur/ He gets so mad it makes him grrrrrr/ I throw a pillow at his face/ He gets up and we have a race/ We run around with cats at our feet/ I do not stress, I got him beat/ BillyBob is sad and sleepy/ I feel bad and now I'm weepy/
This is a hexaduad.
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Which is which? Identify: simile, metaphor, comparison... // (A) The dogs were barking as loud as the fire alarm. // (B) The dogs' barking was a fire alarm in the night. // (C) The dogs were barking like miniature fire alarms.//
(A) comparison // (B) metaphor // (C) simile //
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How is a metaphor similar to a simile, and how is it different?
A metaphor compares two different things, which is the same as a simile. However, a metaphor says that one of the things IS the other. The sentence doesn't use "like" or "as."
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What is a hexaduad?
A hexaduad is a poem of 6 couplets (two lines which rhyme and are of similar length/rhythm) on one topic.
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Identify two different types of poetic devices used in this sentence:// The rain punched down on the city, a gray hammer of cold, wet water.
Personification: rain punched (rain can't punch) // Metaphor: rain=gray hammer
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'Tis a favourite project of mine,/ A new value of pi to assign./ I would fix it at 3,/ For it's simpler, you see,/ Than 3 point 1 4 1 5 9/
This is a limerick.
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What do you have to do to make this a hexaduad?//// The ants were marching one by one,/ Along the mat under the sun./ They stopped to scan a mountain high,/ Which really was a rhubarb pie./ The ants decided to climb on up,/ So on the sweetness they could sup./ They reached the top,/ But a sudden SWAT!/ Ended ants - and pie -/ Sigh.//
You would need to make the last four lines into two couplets, and then add one more couplet.
400
What is rhyme and what is rhythm, and how are they useful for poetry?
A rhyme is when words use the same sounds, usually the last word of each line in a poem. // Rhythm is the pattern of syllables in a line of a poem. // These are useful for poetry, because the combination of rhythm and rhyme create different types of poems.
400
Explain "haiku" - where is it from, what is the pattern, what themes or topics are used?
A haiku is an unrhymed, 3-line, 17-syllable poem of Japanese origin. It usually has a seasonal or nature reference. // The pattern is: // line 1 - 5 syllables // line 2 - 7 syllables // line 3 - 5 syllables //
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Identify all the poetic devices used in this sentence: // The concerned, calico cat crouched like a tiny dragon While I walked away, a wily knight, pulling my red wagon.
Alliteration: concerned, calico, cat, crouched // Alliteration: while, walked (a)way, wily, wagon // Rhyme: dragon, wagon // Simile: cat=tiny dragon Metaphor: I=wily knight
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Loneliness (noun) - Nothing to do; Nobody to play with but yourself; Everything is quiet, not a sound; All you can hear is your own breathing; Just sitting there, all alone.
This is a definition poem.
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Make a limerick on this idea: // My uncle, Larry, has a lot of hair. He decided to shave it all off. Now, he can feel a lot of air. //
(Limerick format: rhyme pattern AABBA. A lines of similar length, B lines of similar length. A lines longer than B lines.) // Example: // There was an old man named Larry./ He was most annoyingly hairy./ He decided to shave/ While having a bathe/ And now he feels quite airy.//
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How do you spell the poetic device in which the word itself sounds like the sound it means? (Examples: Boom! Zip! Splash!)
You spell this poetic device: onomatopoeia
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What is a cinquain? Explain the pattern of a modern cinquain. // *For double points - what is the pattern of a traditional cinquain?
A cinquain is a 5-line, unrhymed poem about one topic which is given in the first line. // The modern cinquain is based on a word count of words of a certain type: line 1 - one word (noun) a title or name of the subject line 2 - two words (adjectives) describing the title line 3 - three words (verbs) describing an action related to the title line 4 - four words describing a feeling about the titlem, a complete sentence line 5 - one word referring back to the title of the poem // The traditional cinquain is based on a syllable count: line 1 - 2 syllables line 2 - 4 syllables line 3 - 6 syllables line 4 - 8 syllables line 5 - 2 syllables
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(A) How many stanzas in the poem? and (B) Identify the patternS in a stanza. //// I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils;/ Beside the lake, beneath the trees,/ Fluttering and dancing in the breeze./// Continuous as the stars that shine/ And twinkle on the Milky Way,/ They stretch'd in never-ending line/ Along the margin of a bay:/ Ten thousand saw I at a glance,/ Tossing their heads in sprightly dance./// The waves beside them danced; but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:/ A poet could not but be gay,/ In such a jocund company:/ I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought/ What wealth the show to me had brought:/// For oft, when on my couch I lie/ In vacant or in pensive mood,/ They flash upon that inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude;/ And then my heart with pleasure fills,/ And dances with the daffodils.///
There are 4 stanzas. // Each one ends with a couplet. // The rhyme pattern is: ABABCC // Each line has 8 syllables (although a couple have 9).
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Waiting // Empty/ Old rocking chairs/ Once creaking back and forth/ Now sit motionless on the porch/ Waiting// Sharing/ Yesterday's dream/ Is just a memory/ They used to sit in unison/ Rocking// Drought came/ The lovers left/ Leaving the chairs behind/ They will rock again with new life/ One day//
This poem is made of three stanzas. Each stanza is a (traditional) cinquain.
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Make it a cinquain, using as many of the words as possible (but you can change their part of speech as needed): // Summer sun sets now -/ A slow shimmer into dark/ Then twinkles of lights.//
(cinquain should have five lines - // one word (topic) // two adjectives // three actions // a phrase/sentence // a synonym // Example: // Sunset / Summer, slow / Shimmering, setting, twinkling / Darkness comes at last. / Nightfall //
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