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The meter of a Shakespearean Sonnet
"Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight" by Dylan Thomas
(what type of poem?)
What is a villanelle?
Screeching, scolding, clanking are examples of?
What is Cacophonous?
Nature wept.
What is personification?
What type of poem is this?
Oak Tree
Strong, Tall
Swaying, Swinging, Sighing
Memories of Summer
What is a quatrain?
The cat sat on a mat.
What is Rhyme?
If your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out!
What is an overstatement or hyperbole?
Poems that explicitly instruct
What is didactic?
A brief reference to a person, event, place, or phrase
What is an allusion?
Emotional weight carried by words.
Examples: genius, nerd, bookish
What is connotation?
Ballads, Epics, and Lyric Poems are all?
What are narrative poems?
a rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into patterns
What is meter?
14 lines, Iambic pentameter, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Rhyme scheme
What is a Shakespearen Sonnet?
A poem in the form of three lines with this syllable pattern, 5-7-5
What is a Haiku?
The count of syllables in iambic pentameter?
What is five?
The sun sizzles in the blue sky.
What is onomatopoeia?
The dictionary, literal meaning of the word
What is detonation?
talk - chat, mutter, covnerse, whipser, murmur, banter, discuss, argue, blab
What are synonyms and stronger verbs?
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word
What is an alliteration?
A cat-lover who is allergic to cats.
What is irony?
When a poem's narrator addresses an inanimate object as if it were present and alive.
What is an apostrophe?
Death to self is life abundant!
What is paradox?
The sun is an oven.
What is a metaphor?
The sky was as dark as ink.
What is a simile?
Give us this day our daily BREAD. Bread in this prayer is an exampe of what?
What is Metonymy?
(part or something closely associated is used to stand for the thing actually meant) Bread = any sort of nourishment, not just literal bread.