Structure of Poetry
A group of lines in a poem that functions like a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
Giving human qualities to inanimate (non-human) things is called—
Answer: What is personification?
The person or thing that opposes the protagonist and creates obstacles that drive the story's conflict.
What is the antagonist?
The speaker of the poem is addressing this person.
Who is the speaker's daughter?
The narrator of this passage is the father’s —
What is son?
Both selections focus on relationships between fathers and their ________.
What are their children?
The pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines.
What is rhyme scheme?
The phrase “the car roared like a lion” is an example of —
Answer: What is a simile?
When a story reveals a character's actions, dialogue, and thoughts to show their personality, the author is developing this element?
What is characterization?
The author uses personification in lines 17-19 in order to create a somber ___________.
What is mood?
The description of the father's cracking nails and scaly hand emphasizes this.
What is his age and frailty?
Both texts use imagery to express characters experiencing —
What is emotional struggle or reflection?
A poem written without a consistent rhyme scheme or meter.
What is free verse?
Comparing the sky to "a surreal sea" is an example of —
Answer: What is a metaphor?
This is the beginning of the story where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition?
The image "a surreal seal in which you drown" suggests that the author may—
What is be overwhelmed by his or her emotions?
The phrases "Let me guess" and "no doubt" give the son's dialogue this tone.
What is sarcastic?
What is a difference in how the two selections portray fathers?
What is the father in "To a Daughter with Artistic Talent" seems defensive, and the father in Big Fish seems relaxed.
The use of descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
This poetic device is the repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in nearby words, such as "wild winds whispered".
What is an alliteration?
This element refers to the insight about life or human nature that readers can infer after examining the characters' actions and the story's events?
What is the theme?
The final line of the poem suggests that the daughter's art will—
What is change as she grows?
The son listens closely to his father because he believes that his father is _________.
What is may be dying?
Both the daughter's paintings in "To a Daughter with Artistic Talent" and the father's stories in the excerpt from Big Fish —
What is depict a world that seems more fanciful than realistic?
The moment(s) in a poem that marks a change in tone, perspective, or meaning.
What is a shift?
This poetic device is the intentional exaggeration used for emphasis or dramatic effect, such as saying "I've told you a million times to clean your room."
What is hyperbole?
When the reader understands more about a situation than the characters do, this is called _______.
What is dramatic irony?
The poem shifts from describing the daughter's painting to—
What is imagining her future as an artist?
The story explores the theme of a son doing this with his father.
What is making peace with his father?
What is the difference between the attitude of the speaker in the poem and the attitude of the narrator in the story?
What is the speaker in the poem worries that his daughter gets carried away by her imagination while the narrator in the story admires the way his father uses his imagination.