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
Anything in literature fits into two categories: Name them.
Poetry or Prose
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
(Whitman)
"My heart shattered into pieces"
Metaphor
What is the unit called in poetry that makes up 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
A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content
Genre
What is the attitude an author expresses in their writing called?
Tone
What figurative language term has to do with touch, taste, smell, sight or sound?
Imagery
This house has been far out at sea all night
The woods crashing through darkness,
the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields
Which inference about the house is best supported by the first line of the poem?
A. The house acts as a source of solace.
B. The house is near a body of water.
C. The house seems as if it might sink.
D. The house has had to endure bad weather.
D
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
Personification
(Emily Dickinson)
What is the major difference between prose and poetry?
Ideas are contained in sentences that are arranged into paragraphs.
What is it called when a figure of speech has two opposite things next to one another?
Ex. "Jumbo shrimp" or "loving hate"
Oxymoron
What is placing two things that directly oppose each other near one another to compare the two things called?
Ex. "Love is like a soft cushion to sleep on while Hate is a stone"
Juxtaposition
Name one example of a motif
Answers vary... i.e. Evil stepmothers in Disney movies
What is the rhyme scheme?
"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."
ABAB rhyme scheme
(Robert Frost)
What are 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."
Rhyming couplet
(Shakespeare)
Identify the italicized words:
"From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire"
Rhyme
(Robert Frost)