Kinds of Metaphor
Our Poets
What's it Called?
Write an example
Class Questions
100

This compares two things using like or as

What is a simile?

100

What's Wendell Berry's 'job' besides being a poet?

What is farming?

100

Boom! Crash! Wooosh! Are examples of this.

What is onomatopoeia?

100
Write a simile.

Hold it up.

100

What is the class besides Civics 99% of seniors need to graduate?

What is ELA 12?

200

This metaphor is used to exaggerate 

What is hyperbole?

200

Rumi is a poet from which century OR which country?

What is - the 1200s OR Afghanistan?

200

These poems have strict rules, usually around rhyme and number of syllables.

What are 'formal poems'?
200

Write a rhyming couplet.

Hold it up!

200

Once on our Canvas homepage, where do you click to find what we did in class?

What is modules?

300

This is the opposite of literal

What is metaphorical?

300

Pablo Neruda wrote 'Ode to My Socks'. What is an ode?

What is song/poem of praise?

300

This is the name of a stanza that has four lines.

What is a 'quatrain'?

300

Draw a symbol for sadness.

Hold it up!

300

What would you annotate for during a 'Level 2' annotation?

What are Poetic Terms?

400

This gives a non-human object human characteristics

What is personification?

400

Kendrick Lamar reflects on his arrogance and lack of love for others unapologetically in his song ______

What is PRIDE.?

400

This is the repetition of words or phrases at the end of lines.

What is cataphora? 

400

Write a sentence that includes a metaphor.

Hold up your boards!

400

What's the name of the specific way you see the world?

What is a 'personal lens'?
500

This is a metaphor that builds on itself throughout a work, usually in a speech.

What is an extended metaphor?

500

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote the famous poem, 'We Real Cool' - What does it mean to, 'Jazz June'?

What is party?
500

This is the shift at the end of a poem, usually where the poet shares their main message. 

What is the 'Volta'? 

500

Write a double-entendre.

Hold up your boards.

500

What is Mr. Abernathy's favorite type of writing?

What is poetry?