Poem Structures
The type of poem that addresses a thing or a person that is not present
What is an apostrophe?
Two examples of figurative language that suggest similarities between unlike things.
What are similes and metaphors?
What does mystical mean?
Magical, fantasy
Links two ideas by repeating the same form in a series of lines
What is parallel structure?
The repetition of a word or a phrase at the start of several lines of a poem
What is anaphora?
What the speaker’s father used in his advice to his struggling son in the poem “Advice.”
What is an implied metaphor?
What is a copper beech?
A type of large tree
Write a simile
Use like or as
The pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
A poetry device that is an indirect reference to an outside work of art or cultural figure.
What is allusion?
Give an example using the word rue, ruing, or rued
Many people rue the winter.
I rued the decision to not wear a jacket.
He must be ruing his missed shot.
Write a metaphor
was, is, were
An attitude that is communicated through the style of writing and the words an author uses.
What is tone?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
Use the word transfixed in a sentence.
The boy was transfixed on the TV.
The river sang as it flowed.
The river danced along the shoreline.
The angry river roared down the street.
A type of poem in which each stanza repeats at least one line from elsewhere in the poem
What is a villanelle?
A word or phrase that is not used in its dictionary definition. Similes and metaphors are a type of this
What is figurative language?
What does quatrain mean?
A four line stanza
Write a poem using two quatrain stanzas that follow an ABAB CDCD rhyme scheme.
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