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Element Examples
Elements of Poetry
Figurative Language
Poetry Strategies
Catchy and Creative
100
I know that some people like; sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five This is obviously...
What is repetition?
100
Repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
100
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
In this strategy the reader uses the five senses to understand the details used by a poet. These are the "word pictures" created by the poet.
What is imagery?
100
The third word in the fourth line of the second stanza... Banging on a garbage can, Bam bam bam. Mattie says it's time For a poetry slam. Everyody's talkin' poems! Everybody's laughin' poems! Sis is eatin' poems! Amelia's wearin' poems on her feet! The sky is filled with poems!
What is "poems"?
200
An exaggeration used for effect Example: I am so hungry I could eat a house.
What is a hyperbole?
200
The end of our lines sounds the same With sounds, this is a repetitive game Although right now it might seem lame What element of poetry am I trying to name?
Rhyme scheme
200
Read the example. Tell which type of figurative language it is. A dream is a winged bird.
What is metaphor?
200
The rhyme scheme of this stanza... Eagle gliding in the sky, circling, circling way up high- wind is whistling through your wings. You're a graceful kite with no string."
What is AABB rhyme scheme?
200
This is a non-rhyming poem with no set structure.
What is free verse?
300
Simile, metaphor or personification? You pick... There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day every day
What is a metaphor? Heart is compared to an instrument without using like or as.
300
These are groups of lines in a poem similar to paragraphs in an essay or story.
What is a stanza?
300
Words in the English language used to imitate sounds. ex. Bang! The book fell to the floor.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Wizened wizards whizz by wistfully
What is alliteration?
300
Read the example. Identify the type of figurative lang. used. The wave reached out and grabbed the small boy as he sailed to shore.
What is personification?
400
This is an example of... The panther is like a leopard, Except it hasn't been peppered
What is simile?
400
This is the writer's attitude he/she portrays in the poem.
What is tone?
400
Example: That chair is calling my name! Giving non-human things human characteristics.
What is personification?
400
With scales by the hundreds and teeth by the dozen. This line from poetry could be an example of two things. Name one of them.
hyperbole and imagery
400
From somewhere high about the ground There came a frightful crunching sound.
What is onomatopoeia or rhyme?
500
The road symbolizes______ in the following poem 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; 5 Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, 10 And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. 15 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
What is life?
500
This is the main idea the poet is trying to get across to his/her reader.
What is theme?
500
"Her boat was light as a leaf on her back as she carried it to the shoreline..." In this simile, the boat is compared to a__________
What is a leaf?
500
When identifying rhyme scheme the reader should identify the pattern by using these.
What are letters?
500
This is when a poet or author repeats the same words or phrases to add emphasis to the poem or story.
What is repetition?