Literary elements
The main idea of a poem or narrative text.
What is Theme?
Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike.
What is simile?
You are as big as an elephant.
What is simile?
Types of poems that don’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer
What is free verse?
The authors attitude towards a poem or narrative text.
What is tone?
A direct comparison of two things.
What is metaphor?
Life is a highway.
What is a metaphor?
Japanese poetry made of short, unrhymed lines that evoke natural imagery
What is haiku?
Silent Pond
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
Splash! Silence again.
-Matsuo Basho
What is haiku?
The conclusion / end of a story.
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.
What is personification?
The Nature around me spoke to me with its majestic beauty.
What is personification?
Poem that uses a five-line sentence structure
What is limerick?
There once was a man from Peru,
Who dreamed of visiting Timbuktu.
He packed up his bags,
And caught the first plane with flags,
Now his dream has finally come true!
What is limerick?
The idea of a character wanting something but another thing (not specifically an object) gets in the way.
What is conflict?
The use of an object to represent a complex or abstract idea
The color white stands for purity but can also mean just simply the color.
What is symbolism?
A poem that is directed at a specific person, place, idea, or object in celebration.
What is ode?
"Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers,
Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress,
With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spirit
Lady, not longer!
Hear anew the voice! O hear and listen!
Come, as in that island dawn thou camest,
Billowing in thy yoked car to Sappho
Forth from thy Father's
Golden house in pity!"
What is ode?
The background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story.
What is exposition?
The placement of two differing ideas/things near/next to each other, for contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
The sky looked as if it were night and day.
What is juxtaposition?
Poems that were initially meant to be lyrics set to dancing music.
What is ballad?
They sing their dearest songs—
He, she, all of them—yea,
Treble and tenor and bass,
And one to play;
With the candles mooning each face. . . .
Ah, no; the years O!
How the sick leaves reel down in throngs!
They clear the creeping moss—
Elders and juniors—aye,
Making the pathways neat
And the garden gay;
And they build a shady seat. . . .
Ah, no; the years, the years,
See, the white storm-birds wing across.
They are blithely breakfasting all—
Men and maidens—yea,
Under the summer tree,
With a glimpse of the bay,
While pet fowl come to the knee. . . .
Ah, no; the years O!
And the rotten rose is ript from the wall.
They change to a high new house,
He, she, all of them—aye,
Clocks and carpets and chairs
On the lawn all day,
And brightest things that are theirs. . . .
Ah, no; the years, the years;
Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs.
What is ballad?