Poetry 1
Giving human characteristics to animals or non-living things.
Personification
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is like a battlefield.
Simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is a battlefield.
Metaphor
Saying something different from what you really mean.
Idiom
A figure of speech where the writer purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme. It is used for emphasis or as a way of making a description more creative and humorous.
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is this?
crackkkkk,th-th-thump
onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is this?
The classroom is a zoo!
Metaphor
The most important thing to notice in a poem is....
Speaker's thoughts and feelings.
A word that sounds like what it means. EXAMPLE: Buzz! Click! Bang! Whoosh!
Onomatopoeia
What does the line below explain?
Car goes up
And then down
And then up up
Then down to the town
The one important effect of the rhyme scheme of the poem..
A Helps the reader know the figurative language.
B. It creates a rhythm that emphasizes the motion of the poem.
C. It creates the speaker's mood.
B. It creates a rhythm that emphasizes the motion of the poem.
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
Stanza
The moral or lesson in a story or poem...
Theme
The ordered patterns of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. EXAMPLE: "From Forth the Fatal loins of these two Foes; A pair of star-crossed lover take their life."
Alliteration
Most poems are fiction or nonfiction?
Fiction
When a poem does not rhyme it is called....
A. rhythm B. Free Verse
C. a story D. a poem
Free Verse
How are poems organized?
lines and stanzas
She took the big book to the cook.
When words rhyme within a line of a poem it is called...
A. internal rhyme B. metaphor
C. rhyme scheme C. repetition
internal rhyme
What does this metaphor mean?
My classroom is a junkyard.
A. The classroom is big. B. The classroom is empty.
C. The classroom is messy D. The classroom is loud.
The classroom is messy.
I go to the end.
The end is sad.
The end is sweet.
I don't want it to end.
Which statement reflects the theme of this poem?
A. Family can be hard.
B. Ends can be difficult to face.
C. It is hard to try new things.
Ends can be difficult to face.
I stomped up the stairs.
My feet pounded like hammers.
I went straight to my room.
The simile in line 2 suggest the speaker is...
A. relieved B. angry
C. hungry D. excited
Angry
I am amazing and absolutely exhausted
The alliteration in the lines above show that the speaker feels...
A. really hungry B. really tired
C. really sick D. really big
Really tired
Creates rhythm throughout the poem....
A. stanzas B. lines
C. rhyme scheme D. figurative language
Rhyme scheme
What does this figurative language show....
My brother is a thorn in my side.
A. He is not fond of the way his brother is acting.
B. His brother stepped on a thorn.
C. His brother poked him with a thorn.
He is not fond of the way his brother is acting.
She took the big book to the cook.
The internal rhyme in the line above....
A. shows the problem. B adds more musical quality.
C. creates a break in the rhyme. D. has repetition
Adds more musical quality.