Vocabulary
Moving forward or coming closer
What is advancing?
The author of a poem.
What is a poet?
An example of this poetic device is:
The flowers danced wildly in the wind.
What is personification?
Similar sounds at the ends of words or lines.
What is rhyme scheme?
Poetry that does not have a rhyme scheme or pattern is called ___________ verse.
What is free verse?
Serious and determined
What is a resolute?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
An example of this poetic device is:
The clock was a drum
What is a metaphor?
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem (use letters):
The dog is really bad.
He makes me shake my head.
Sometimes he makes me mad.
And then my face turns red.
What is ABAB?
Which phrase from this poem is an example of anaphora?
And always let the strangers in
And bark at friends instead,
And do disgraceful things on rugs,
What is and?
Has 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables each and contains 17 syllables total
What is a haiku?
One row of words in a poem.
What is a line?
What form of figurative language is the poem using?
Mr. Sun is elated
and bright
He never yells
and does not fight.
What is personification?
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem (use letters):
The world is red,
It's all in my head.
I can't seem to find,
Where is my mind.
What is AABB?
What kind of language is used in this stanza ? Literal Language or Nonliteral Language
I'd touch them
in her voice
smell them
What is Nonliteral Language?
What is a Scatter?
Repeating a word in a poetic line/poem used to show importance.
What is Repetition?
An example of this "rockets rushing in a race."
What is alliteration?
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem (use letters):
I love to hear the waves of the ocean
I love to feel the rush of the wind.
I love to see the blue of the water.
I love to smell the sunscreen on my skin.
What is no rhyme scheme?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of multiples lines in a poem.
What is anaphora?
Long difficult journey
What is a trek?
The attitude or feeling of a piece of writing.
What is the tone?
An example of this poetic device is:
The roar of the lion could be heard around the world
What is an hyperbole
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem (use letters):
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And every where that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go;
What is ABCB?
Compare and Contrast Free Verse Poems and Rhyming Poems
(rhyming poems only: Poems have rhyming words and a rhyme scheme.
free verse poems only: Poems may sound more like the author is talking to the reader.
both rhyming and free verse poems: Poems are written in lines and stanzas.)