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Simile
The description of a thing or a nonhuman form as if it were a person
Personification
The snow is a white blanket (which technique?)
Metaphor
The corn went pop in the microwave
Onomatopoeia
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone
(which technique?)
Rule of three
How many lines are there in a haiku?
3
chair, sheep, train station, Mayflower high school, Bill Gates (are all what kinds of word?)
Noun
What is a 'paragraph' in a poem called?
Stanza
eat, run, study, be, own (are all what kinds of word?)
Verb
huge, square, sweet, adorable, stinky (are all what kinds of word?)
Adjective
What kind of poem is La Belle Dame sans Merci?
Ballad
How many syllables are in each line of a haiku?
5 - 7 - 5
Jabberwocky is what kind of poem?
Nonsense
A water drinker
A straw eater
A race runner
(What kind of poem is this?)
Kenning
Who wrote 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'?
John Keats
What is a definition for a portmanteau?
Give one real example we looked at in class
word made of parts of two (or more) other words
What are these portmanteaus?
1. banoffee
2. hangry
3. smog
banana + toffee
hungry + angry
smoke + fog
Who wrote the poem Jabberwocky?
Lewis Carroll
A poem written in a shape matching its content is what kind of poem?
Concrete
Taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other non-poem mediums and changing them using typical characteristics of poetry is what kind of poetry?
Found
A phrase or line or group of lines are repeated at intervals throughout a poem, generally at the end of the stanza is a what?
Refrain
Finish this quotation:
She took me to her Elfin ______,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild ______
With kisses ______.
grot > eyes > four
Finish the quotation:
But now their bodies are ___________
Left there to rot until they're ___________
underground > found
What are three of the four things that Romantic poets like to write about?
Love, nature, medieval, magic
A limerick has what kind of rhyming pattern?
AABBA