Imagery/Theme/Simile
What is the theme of a poem?
The overall message
What is a metaphor?
A metaphor is when you make a comparison between two unlike things, but you don't use the words "like" or "as."
What is personification?
Personification is giving non-human things human characteristics.
Give me 3 examples of onomatopoeia.
Answers will vary: Bang, crash, etc.
What is the pattern of rhymes? A letter is assigned to each end of the line; if it rhymes with another end of line, it has the same letter.
ABBA
rhyme scheme
What was the theme of "Mending Wall"?
The speaker and his neighbor get together to walk along their property lines to repair a stone wall. As they are working, the Speaker begins to wonder aloud why the fence is there at all.
What is an extended metaphor?
An extended metaphor is a comparison that is longer than one sentence and gives more details about the comparison.
Give me an example of personification.
Answers will vary:
Give me an example of hyperbole.
Answers will vary.
What is the musical quality of a poem using alliteration, meter, repetition or rhyme?
Rhythm
What is a simile?
Give me an example of a metaphor.
Answer will vary.
What is alliteration?
Alliteration is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words.
Give me an example of an idiom.
Head over heels in love.
Tie the knot.
Kick the bucket.
What is a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated. It can be measure in beats by counting syllables.
Meter
Give an example of a simile.
Answers will vary.
Give me an example of an Extended metaphor.
Answers will vary:
What is the alliteration in this line: The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
The repetition of the consonant D. (day, dark and dreary)
"School would be a bed of roses without any tests or homework."
What does the idiom "bed of roses" mean in this sentence?
School would be so easy if we didn't have homework or tests.
What is the poetry term for words that end in the same sound; end rhyme?
Rhyme
What are some ways people put up metaphorical walls?
There are many ways; basically, any time there is an opportunity for connection and an individual chooses NOT to connect, there is some semblance of a wall. For example, choosing to be absorbed with one's cell phone instead of engaging with the people in the room.
In the poem "Caged Bird" what is the extended metaphor?
The bird is compared to a person's freedom.
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall;
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreay.
Where is the personification?
The wind is never weary or the vine still clings to the wall are two examples.
Give me an example of hyperbole.
Answers will vary.
People know this world is a wreak
Were sick and tire of being politically correct
I see through it now but I didn't at first
The hypocrites made it worse and worse
Looking down their noses at what people say
These are just words and words are okay
What is the rhyme scheme?
A A B B C C