Poetry 1
"He ran as fast as a cheetah."
Simile
"Boom! Wham! Pow!"
Onomatopoeia
What do we call a person who writes poetry?
Poet
What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Stanza
When you give human traits or actions to non-human things you are using what form of figurative language?
Personification
"Life is a dance that you learn as you go."
Metaphor
What is the main message or idea of a poem called?
Theme
"But, oh, heart! Heart! Heart!"
Repetition
"Time is a thief."
Metaphor or Personification
A single row of words in a poem
Line
What is the point where one line ends in a poem and another line begins called?
Line break
"Carrie’s cat clawed her couch, creating chaos."
Alliteration
What is the pattern of rhyme in a poem called?
Rhyme scheme
"I had a billion things to do for homework!"
Hyperbole
What is the attitude or feeling an author creates in their writing called?
Tone
What is descriptive language that has to do with touch, taste, smell, sight or sound?
Imagery
What is a metaphor that continues for several stanzas or the length of a poem called?
Extended metaphor
“The classroom was a zoo.”
Metaphor
What is the beat of a poem called?
Rhythm
What is it the feeling a reader gets from a text when reading called?
Mood
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me."
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What is a poem that does not have any form or rhyme called?
Free verse
"Her thoughts fluttered like loose papers in the wind."
Simile
These two lines have what?
"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- Shakespeare
End rhyme
thud
onomatopoeia