Vocabulary
A person who writes poetry.
What is a poet?
In a poem, a word or row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence.
What is a line?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Wind swirled around our beach house whistling loudly to a terrible tune.
What is sound?
Without my glasses, I am as blind as a bat!
What is a simile?
What is imagery?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A word that imitates the sound it represents
What is onomatopoeia?
The sharp edge of the paper cut my finger and made it sting.
What is touch?
The cannon went boom! Boom! Boom!
What is onomatopoeia?
This is an obvious exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
This is the word for the message or lesson of a poem.
What is theme?
A comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
My eyes seek a cool, shady spot beneath looming oak trees. Their thick brown bark and flowing leaves fall like rain around me as the sun peeks between the limbs.
What is sight?
While the girl takes a long look
And the mom begins to cook
While the dad grabs his fishing hook
What is end rhyme?
This is the phrase for the rhyme pattern in a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
This concept represents what the poem is mostly about
What is the main idea?
When a writer gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
What is personification?
The gooey white cheese spilled from my slice and oozed onto my plate. Salty and spicy pepper flakes filled my tongue
What is taste?
What is personification?
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
What is internal rhyme?
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound; makes a poem sound musical. The number of syllables in a line of a poem.
What is rhythm/meter?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
The sparkling scent filled the room when my father opened the hot oven. Rich, drippy cinnamon-scented apples oozed beneath a crisp, buttery crust.
What is smell?
Jim fell off the roof and broke every bone in his body.
What is hyperbole?