Vocabulary
What does it mean?
What type of Figurative Language?
Gist, speaker, setting?
What is the tone/mood?
100
This is the basic unit of a poem, similar to a sentence in a narrative
What is a line?
100
The sun peaked happily from behind a cloud. This is an example of personification. What does this mean?
What is the sun is coming out to shine brightly from behind the clouds.
100
As dry as dust.
What is a simile?
100
Who is the speaker of the poem? And provide evidence as to HOW you know!
I have a crazy Teacher
Who's hair is full of glue
She sleeps under a bleacher
While making homework stew
What is a student?
100
Identify the mood in the poem.
I loved my friend.
He went away from me.
There's nothing more to say.
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend
What is sad?
200
This is the person who writes a poem
What is a poet?
200
His temper was as explosive as a volcano. This is an example of a simile. What does this mean?
What is he is VERY mad and causing a scene?
200
His heart is a stone.
What is a metaphor?
200
What is the setting of the poem? Provide evidence to how you know this
What is outside, summer night
200
What is the mood of this poem?
A summer day is full of ease,
a bank is full of money,
our lilac bush to full of bees,
And I am full of honey.
What is happiness?
300
This is a group of lines, similar to a paragraph in a narrative
What is a stanza?
300
The class was a three ring circus with the substitute. This is an example, of a metaphor. What is the meaning?
What is the class was out of control when there was a sub in class.
300
The sun smiles down on me.
What is personification?
300
What is the setting of the poem and how do you know?
What is winter watching snow fall down?
300
What is the tone of the poem?
Wishing
Johnny wished that he and I
Had everything the same:
Toys and books and things to eat
And even our house and name.
I wished the same as Johnny wished,
And maybe it's coming true,
Because he has the measles now,
And I have them too!
What is a humorous or lighthearted?
400
This is the phrase for the rhyme pattern in a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
400
I can see that news travels quickly. This is an example of personification. What does this mean?
What is the news is going fast around to people?
400
He was quick like a rabbit
What is simile?
400
What is the gist of the poem?
My Family
By Stacy Zeiger
My mom is like a fire.
She's always warm, but sometimes she gets too hot.
My brother is like a tornado.
He always moves fast and spreads destruction wherever he goes.
My sister is like a snowstorm.
She's pretty to look at and icy at times, but with a little sunshine, that iciness melts.
Together we are like a partly cloudy day.
We have our moments of darkness and gloom, but the sun always peeks through.
What is a family has many components and have hard times, but they are family and you can always count on them!
400
What is the mood of this poem?
What is the mood is motivational/inspiring/positive
500
This is the word for the message or lesson of a poem.
What is theme?
500
The tree leaves danced in the wind. This is an example of personification. What does this mean?
What is the leaves are moving because of the wind.
500
The starry night sky looked so beautiful that it begged him to linger, but he reluctantly left for home.
What is imagery?
500
What is the gist of this poem?
Still I Rise by: Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
What is you push through when things are tough- "still I rise"
500
What is the mood of the poem?
What is the mood is serious?