Easy Vocabulary
This is the basic unit of a poem.
What is a line?
A reference to an outside character or piece of work is an example of...
What is allusion?
As dry as dust.
What is a simile?
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
What is ABAB?
Who is Ms. Detviler's sister?
Who is Maddie Detviler?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
What is a term that describes a 19 line poem?
What is Villanelle?
His heart is a stone.
What is a metaphor?
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
What is AABB
Where is Ms. Detviler from?
Where is Minnesota?
AABB
Rhyme Scheme
What is a quatrain?
The sun smiles down on me.
What is personification?
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
What is ABCB
How old is Ms. Detviler?
What is 28?
When words end with the same ending sound they what?
Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all….
is an example of what kind of rhyme scheme?
What is slant rhyme?
What is the tone of the following poem?
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
What is positive, uplifting, and triumphant?
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
What is ABAAB?
Where did Ms. Detviler attend college?
What is The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire?
This is the word for the message or lesson of a poem.
What is theme?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way”
is an example of what poetic devices?
What is an anaphora.
What is the theme of the following poem?:
Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam I am.
I do not like them in a boat.
I do not like them with a goat.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
What is AABBCC
Who was the FIRST person Ms. Detviler's ever saw concert?
Who was Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, and The Jonas Brothers?