Metaphor, Simile, or Personification?
Her eyes are as blue as the ocean.
What is a simile?
Poetry
What is a form/genre of writing that uses words to invoke feelings in the audience?
Rhyme Scheme
What is the way a poem's lines rhyme
Simile
What is a comparison using like/as?
Describe the theme of one of the poems we read for homework.
Frost - Beauty fades
Dickinson - Depression
Daniel Whitehead Hicky - Parallel between man and machine
The wind whispered to the trees.
What is personification?
Stanza
What is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose?
Shakespearean Sonnet
What is a poem with a specific rhyme scheme, with fourteen lines, and ending in a heroic couplet.
Cinquain
What is a 5-line stanza?
What was the theme of the poem we watched in the TED Talk?
Nature; Beauty; Create without fear
The avalanche was fury.
What is metaphor?
Examples of Prose
What are novels, textbooks, or newspaper articles?
Personification
What is giving something nonhuman a human-like quality?
Which was your favorite poem we read?
Your answer:
The child was as calm as a breeze.
What is a simile?
Free Verse
What is a poem that does not adhere to a rhyme scheme, meter, or typical poetic structure?
Couplet
2 lines that rhyme
What is another word for poetry?
Verse
What is something new that you learned from this unit?
Your answer:
The train whooshed by us speedily.
What is onomatopeia?
The author of "Nothing Gold Can Stay".
Who is Robert Frost?
Soliloquy
What is a poem that expresses the thoughts/feelings of a single speaker to the audience?
The rhythm within a line of poetry.
What is the meter?
Define the following words:
Thine
Thou art
Dost
Thy
Thine = your, yours
Thou art = you are
Dost = does
Thy = you, your