Figurative Language
"I love the sound of bacon sizzling on a weekend" is an example of what figurative language
(metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole, idiom, or allusion)
Onomatopoeia
Can the poet and speaker be the same person?
YES!
What is imagery?
Imagery creates vivid word pictures that engage our senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell
a group of lines similar to a paragraph is called what?
A stanza
How many stanzas are in this poem?
"I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles."
2
"My teacher is a dragon" is an example of what figurative language?
(metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole, idiom, or allusion)
Metaphor
Define what the speaker of a poem is
The speaker is the imaginary voice that narrates the poem
Define Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences
What is the stanza called when it contains 6 lines?
Sestet
What phrase in this poem is alliteration?
"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out
She'd scour the pots and scrub the pans
Candy the yams and spice the hams
And though her daddy would scream and shout
She simply would not take the garbage out…"
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
"The run-down house appeared depressed" is an example of what figurative language?
(metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole, idiom, or allusion)
Personification
Define Tone
Tone is the speaker’s attitude toward his/her subject
Define Consonance
Consonance is the repetition in consonant sounds within words
What is Lineation?
Where a poet chooses to stop a line and start a new one
Name the stanzas based on the number of lines in this poem
"I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles."
Quatrain
What is the definition of IDIOM?
A phrase that has gained a meaning that is different from the literal meaning of words
Describe the differences between 1st, 2nd and 3rd point of view
1st: the narrator is a character in the story. Uses I, me, my, mine, we, us, etc.
2nd: The narrator is using you to tell something. Uses You, your
3rd: The narrator is a force outside the story. Uses She, he, they, them, etc.
There are 3 elements that a part of poetic devices, what are they?
Sound devices, imagery, and figurative language
What do lines in poems help create?
Rhythm and emphasis
What type of Rhyme does this poem contain?
"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
End Rhyme
Describe the difference between figurative language and literal language
Figurative language describes something as different from its factual and true meaning
Literal language describes something as its factual and true meaning
There are 4 elements of poetic voice, what are they?
poet, speaking, point of view, and tone
Meter is a specific pattern in a line of poetry that is a mix of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is the name for the combination of UNSTRESSED- UNSTRESSED- STRESSED meter?
Anapest
Define enjambment
a line that does not end with punctuation and the thought continues to a new line
In this poem, there is one specific type of line, what is it called?
"Maru Mori brought me
a pair
of socks
which she knitted herself
with her sheepherder’s hands,
two socks as soft
as rabbits."
A enjambment