Vocabulary
This is a comparison using LIKE or AS
What is a simile?
The sun kissed me while I was clicking a picture.
Name the figurative language being used.
What is personification?
Hit the books.
What does this idiom mean?
What is to study hard?
This is the author's attitude toward the writing.
What is tone?
'How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!’
How many stanzas does this poem have?
What is 2 stanzas?
This is a comparison without using the word LIKE or AS
What is a metaphor?
The steaks sizzled on the barbeque.
Name the figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
Our daughter is a little angel.
What does this hyperbole mean?
What is being very good?
Let me fetch sticks.
Let me fetch stones.
Throw me your bones.
Teach me your tricks.
What is the rhyme scheme?
What is ABBA?
She almost spilled the beans.
What does this idiom mean?
What is give away a secret?
This is giving a nonliving object human characteristics or abilities
What is personification?
Clark closed his cluttered clothes closet.
Name the figurative language.
What is alliteration?
The teacher decided to let him off the hook.
What does this idiom mean?
What is escaping a difficult situation?
I’ve had him
ever since I was born.
I sleep with him
every night.
He isn’t furry
any more
because I hugged
all the fur off him.
I called him teddy/ted.
He has cute outy ears
and little paddy hands.
What does this ode celebrate?
What is a teddy bear?
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
What is the rhyme scheme?
AABB
A poem that celebrates a subject. It often focuses on details and makes comparisons (uses similes and metaphors)
What is an ode?
My feet are killing me.
Name the figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
In a pickle.
What does this idiom mean?
What is it to be in trouble or to be stuck in a bad situation?
The game was on the line now.
What mood does this create?
What is anxious, worried, suspenseful?
This type of poem is written as if the poet were the subject of the poem.
What is a persona or mask poem?
Auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory all relate to this
What are the senses?
Her hair was a flowing golden river streaming down her shoulders.
Name the figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
The cookies were selling like hot cakes!
What does this idiom mean?
What is to sell out?
What are stanzas?
This is a four-line rhyming poem.
What is a quatrain?