True or False
True or False?
A metaphor is a comparison where we say that one thing IS something else.
True
"The fog crept on little cat feet" is an example of...
What is a metaphor
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern
What is Free Verse?
A group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph)
What is a stanza?
"Quoth the raven, Nevermore!"
Edgar Allan Poe
Comparing two things with "like" or "as" is an example of alliteration?
False
That book is older than dirt!
What is a Hyperbole
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects or things.
What is Personification?
"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees.
I Speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
And I'm Asking you sir, at the top of my lungs"-
Who is Dr. Suess?
romantic, realistic, optimistic, pessimistic, gloomy, mournful, sorrowful...
These are examples of mood?
True!
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson an author wants us to learn from the poem.
What is the theme?
There's this subject called chemistry
how it works is a total mystery
it is an atom
says my madam
but all I see is my misery
What is a Limerick?
She sells seashells down by the seashore
What is Alliteration?
This poet worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and wrote poems such as Caged Bird and Still I Rise
Who is Maya Angelou?
There are 5 kinds of imagery
True
What is an Internal Rhyme?
Example: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”
a rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse
Haiku poems originate from what county?
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator
What is Japan?
Wham! Bam! Pop! Sizzle! Crash!
What is onomatopoeia?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
Who is William Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare invented the sonnet.
False. The sonnet was invented by Giacomo da Lentini. It originated in the Italian poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in Palermo, Sicily. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's invention for expressing courtly love.
literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
what is poetry
Farmers bring in the harvest from the land.
Animals prepare for the winter chill.
Leaves fall from the trees -- floating
Lightly to the ground.
What is an acrostic poem?
Find the examples of personification in the following:
Hey diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed, to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the Spoon.
What is "the little dog laughed" "The dish ran away with the spoon"
Literally just name a poet and 1,000,000,000+ points if you can name and recite a poem by them
yes