Poetry I
"She is cute as a button"
Simile
"Boom! Wham! Pow!"
Onomatopoeia
"I had a billion things to do for homework"
Hyperbole
What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Stanza
"From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire"
- Robert Frost
Rhyme
What is the feeling a reader gets from a text when reading called?
Mood
What is the main message or idea of a poem called?
Theme
"But oh heart! Heart! Heart!
Repetition
"My heart shattered into pieces"
Metaphor
What is the unit called in poetry that makes up a stanze?
Hint: Think how many ______ are there in a stanza
Line
What is the point where one line ends in a poem and another line begins called?
Line break
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
What is the pattern of rhyme in a poem called?
Rhyme scheme
The sun was a burnt orange as it slipped behind the horizon, ending the day the way it began, dark.
Imagery
What is the attitude of feeling an author creates in their writing called?
Tone
Giving things that are not human, characteristics of a human
Personficiation
The cactus was as irritated as Mr. Whirtley
Personification
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What is the internal feel or beat of a poem called?
Rhythm
What is it called when a figure of speech has two opposite things next to one another?
Ex. "Jumbo shrimp" or "loving hate"
Oxymoron
Free verse
What is the speaker of a poem called in poetry?
The voice