Poetic Devices
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The name for a group of lines within a poem?
What are stanzas?
Descriptions that appeal to your imagination or senses.
What is Imagery?
An example of this poetic device is:
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
You and I are past our dancing days
Who is Shakespeare?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
A poetic Stanza should have this many lines.
What is any amount?
Trick question!
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
What poetic device is used in the line:
Matt went to bat for his cat.
What is rhyme?
All these people thing love's for show, but I would die for you in secret.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
These flowers grow in Flanders Fields, according to the John McCrae poem?
What are poppies?
Poetry that does not have a rhyme scheme or pattern is called ___________ verse.
What is free verse?
An example of this "rockets rushing in a race."
What is alliteration?
These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die.
Who is Shakespeare?
An example of this poetic device is:
The flowers danced wildly in the wind.
What is personification?
Known for its famous reenactment of Walt Whitman's poem “Oh Captain! My Captain!”, this film stars Robin Williams.
What is Dead Poet's Society
Similar sounds at the ends of words or lines.
What is rhyme?
An example of this poetic device is:
I'm so hungry I could eat a hundred pizzas.
What is a hyperbole.
And all we are is skin and bone, trained to get along, forever going with the flow.
Who is Taylor Swift?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
This successful 4 letter musical is based on the poems of TS Eliot?
What is Cats?
Repeating a word in a poetic line/poem used to show importance.
What is Repetition?
What form of figurative language is the poem using?
Mr. Sun is elated and bright
He never yells and does not fight.
What is personification?
Sad hours seem long
Who is Shakespeare