Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
What poetic device is at work in the following line: Ducks danced delightfully on the pool deck!
What is alliteration?
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern, in rhythm, rhyme scheme, or line length.
What is free verse?
The author's attitude a poem implies.
What is Tone?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is a stanza?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I heard a bird sing/ In the dark of December./ A magical thing /And sweet to remember./
'We are nearer to Spring /Than we were in September," /I heard a bird sing/ In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
A four lined poem with a specific rhyming pattern.
What is a quatrain?
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is frustrated/annoyed?
The appearance of words on a page.
What is form?
You are a shining star!
What is a metaphor?
What poetic sound tool is used in this quote?
Try as I might, the kite did not fly.
What is assonance?
A stanza made up of two lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
Poetry is written to speak to these parts of the reader.
What is heart and mind?
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
What is repetition, or rhythm?
A type of poetry that is written entirely in the voice of the object it is about.
What is a persona poem?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
Identify three examples of personification found in this poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds/ and trembling shadows?
Words whose sound suggests their meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the rhyme scheme?
Two roads diverged 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/ To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
This type of poetry is similar to a haiku, but has a 5,7, 5,7,7 syllable pattern in each line.
What is a tanka?
Word specially selected to create an image in a person's head.
What is sensory language/imagery?
Entire lines of poetry that repeat in poetry.
What is a refrain?