Definitions
What is a simile?
Simile is a comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
As I sat on the sofa, I heard a loud crack.
Onomatopoeia
An old silent pond
From leaf to leaf hops a frog
looking for a meal.
Haiku
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem:
There was a man who never was
This tragedy occured because
His parents, being none too smart
Were born two hundred years apart.
A, A, B, B
What is literature written in verse and emphasizing the rhythmic use of words to create imagery?
Poetry
My grandfather's mind is as sharp as razors.
Simile
What type of poem is this excerpt?
When a chance came, he caught the hero
In a rush of flame and clamped sharp fangs
into his neck. Beowulf's body
ran wet with his life-blood: it came welling out.
An epic poem
Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;
Eat I must, and sleep I will, - and would that night were here!
But ah! - to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!
Would that it were day again! - with twilight near!
A, B, A, B
What is a rhyme?
the repetition of the same or similar sounds
The stars are dancing in the night sky.
Personification
Floating freely
Under the skies above
No fear of playful love
An acrostic poem
Hickory dickory dock.
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
And down we run.
Hickory dickory dock.
A, A, B, B, A
What is an oxymoron?
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
Hyperbole
Oh Potato,
Your many personalities
Your multile identities,
Oh Potato,
From french fries to potato chips,
You always find a way to satisfy my lips.
An Ode
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece as white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
A, B, C, B
What is a haiku?
A Japanese poem, three lines long, where the first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables and the third line has 5 syllables.
It is the same difference to me!
Oxymoron
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:"
A sonnet
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
A, A, B, C, B