Poetry A
"She is cute as a button"
What is a Simile?
"Boom! Wham! Pow!"
What is Onomatopoeia?
"I had a billion things to do for homework"
What is a Hyperbole?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a Stanza?
"From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire"
- Robert Frost
What is a Rhyme?
The feeling a reader gets from reading a text
What is a Mood?
The main message or idea of a poem
What is a Theme?
"But oh heart! Heart! Heart!
What is Repetition?
"My heart shattered into pieces"
What is a Metaphor?
The unit in poetry that makes up a stanza
Hint: Think how many ______ are there in a stanza
What is a Line?
The point where one line ends in a poem and another line begins
What is a Line break?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
What is Alliteration?
The pattern of rhyme in a poem
What is a Rhyme Scheme?
This is a poem which celebrates something ordinary
What is an ODE?
The attitude of feeling an author creates in their writing is called
What is Tone?
Imagery that has to do with touch, taste, smell, sight or sound
What is Sensory imagery?
A metaphor that continues for several stanzas or the length of a poem
What is Extended Metaphor?
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
What is Personification?
The internal feel or beat of a poem
What is Rhythm?
A figure of speech that has two opposite things next to one another
Ex. "Jumbo shrimp" or "loving hate"
What is an Oxymoron?
Placing two things that directly oppose each other near one another to compare the two things
Ex. "Love is like a soft cushion to sleep on while Hate is a stone"
What is a Juxtaposition?
A poem that does not have any form or rhyme
What is a Free Verse?
A rhyme scheme where alternating lines rhyme with each other
Ex. "The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day." - Robert Frost
What is "ABAB rhyme scheme"?
Two similar lines of poetry that end on the same sound
Ex. "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- Shakespeare
What is a Rhyming Couplet?
The speaker of a poem in poetry
What is "The Voice"?