Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph).
"All the world's a stage."
Name TWO styles of poetry that does NOT have to rhyme.
What is a haiku and acrostic poem?
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praises something.
What is an ode?
The inner thoughts of a character spoken aloud to an audience.
What is soliloquy?
When the author uses objects to represent people and thoughts.
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
A poem that tells a story.
Identify where the personification is in the poem:
"Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?"
What is bashful flowers, blushing birds, and shadows tremble?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 5 lines.
What form of poetry is this?
Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow
What is a figure of speech that is not meant to be taken literally?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.