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comparison using the words 'like' or 'as'
What is a simile?
The classroom was a melting pot.
What is a metaphor?
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
What is a metaphor?
Often called a poem's paragraph, poems are organized by groups of lines called this
What is a stanza?
"The villian is here!"
phrase that evokes the 5 senses (smell, sound, taste, sight, touch) to create an image for the reader
What is imagery?
The clock stared down at me during the test.
What is personification?
"I will not be afraid of death and bane/ till Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane"
What is end rhyme?
A way to add structure to a poem is with this; students can mark it with letters of the alphabet (ABBA)
What is a rhyme scheme?
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?"
Yes
It has 5 Iambic feet; 10 syllables total.
representing an abstract quality or idea with humanlike descriptors
What is onomatoepoeia (buzz) OR a metaphor (comparing the auditorium to a beehive)?
"Here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes in Arabia will not/ sweeten this little hand!"
What is imagery?
(Sense of smell)
This is the poem's rhythm structure.
It is usually established by having a certain pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the words on each line.
What is meter?
"Now is the winter of our discontent"
Yes
a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor
What is hyperbole?
The cold sun shone through the window.
What is an oxymoron?
(SUN provides heat and warmth)
"But now I am cabined, cribbed, and confined, bound in/ to saucy doubts and fears."
What is alliteration?
A single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general is called this. It's opposite term is PROSE.
What is verse?
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
No
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
This quiz will be the death of me!
What is a hyperbole?
"Now does he feel his title/ Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe"
What is a simile?
Four lines grouped togther in a stanza is also known as this.
What is a quatrain?
"that it alone is high fantastical"
Yes