Sound Devices
What is alliteration?
When the beginning sound of closely connected words is repeated
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in poetry (the "paragraph" of poetry)
Which poetry term is this an example of?
I need ice cream like I need oxygen.
Simile
The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a short story/poem
Theme
What is John Cena's catchphrase?
You can't see me
Create your own example of alliteration.
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How many verses are in this poem?
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.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Which term is this an example of?
The man was known to be a pig.
Metaphor
a thing that represents or stands for something else
Symbol
What sport did Ms. Stephanie play in high school?
Lacrosse
What is the word for repeated vowel sounds?
Assonance
What is the word for a poem that doesn't rhyme?
Free verse
An indirect reference to a person, event, location in history or in literature.
Allusion
What is personification?
When you give human qualities to something non-human
How old is Ms. Stephanie's little sister?
12
Which of the three sound devices is this an example of?
Today we may play a game
Assonance
Is this poem in free verse?
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring...
No
snap, crackle, and pop are examples of which poetry term?
Onomatopoeia
What do you call a poem that has 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme?
Sonnet
Who was a playwright that was also famous for writing sonnets?
Shakespeare
Which of the three sound devices is this an example of?
Traffic figures, on July Fourth, to be tough
Consonance
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break.
For example, the poet John Donne uses this device in his poem "The Good-Morrow" when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines:
"I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved?"
Enjambment
The speaker/poet's attitude toward the topic of the poem
Tone
A poem of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables
Haiku