What is Poetry?
What are the three "R" ingredients of poetry?
Rhyme, repetition, and rhytm.
What words tell you if something is in "first-person"?
I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, and ours.
What are the five senses?
Sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste.
What does someone mean if they say, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"?
I'm REALLY hungry!
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a narrator?
The speaker of the writing.
What words tell you if something is in "second-person"?
You, your, and yours.
"Are aardvarks anxious" is the use of which figurative language?
a. Anaphora
b. Alliteration
c. Simile
b. Alliteration - the repetition of sounds at the beginning of several words in order or near one another
What does someone mean if they say, "It's raining cats and dogs"?
It's raining A LOT!
What word rhymes with book?
a. Dock
b. Cook
c. Reread
b. Cook.
"I'm a poet
And I didn't even know it!"
What do the words "poet" and "it" have in common?
They have the same ending sound... They rhyme!
What words tell you if something is in "third-person"?
He, she, it, him, her, his, hers, its, they, them, their, and theirs.
How do you know something is a simile and not a metaphor?
Similes use the words "like" and "as". Metaphors do not.
What does someone mean if they say, "Hit the lights"?
Turn the lights on or off.
Finish this simile:
"Yandel's cat is ___ fast ___ a cheetah!"
"Yandel's cat is AS fast AS a cheetah.
What is a stanza break?
A break between stanzas.
Is the following sentence first-person, second-person, or third-person?
Edward loves playing with his action figures.
Third-person.
Which of these statements uses hyperbole?
a. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
b. "I'm as hungry as a hippo!"
c. "I'm a hungry lion!"
b. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
Is this a simile or metaphor?
"The thunder rumbled like a roaring lion."
Simile.
What 2 things are being compared?
"The fog comes
on little cat feet."
Fog and cat.
A "qua-train" is a poem with how many lines?
4.
*The prefix "qua-" means 4.
Which word DOESN'T belong?
a. ours
b. theirs
c. me
b. Theirs.
"She had horses who were bodies of sand.
She had horses who were maps drawn of blood.
She had horses who were skins of ocean water."
Which figurative language is the phrase "She had horses who"?
a. Anaphora
b. Alliteration
c. Simile
a. Anaphora - the repetition of words at the start of a series of lines in a poem
Give an example of a simile or metaphor.
Answers vary.
What does it mean to "infer"?
Infer - to reach a reasonable conclusion based on available evidence.