Tone/Mood
What is mood?
The feeling expressed to the reader when reading
What is a stanza?
A group of lines formed to create the recurring meter. Building block of the poem - (like a paragraph)
Identify the rhyme scheme in this poem:
Once upon a star
There was something I wished for
But still, I wanted something more
For my 16th, I got my dream car
ABBA
(Adj) being exactly that and neither more nor less.
What is tone?
The author's attitude towards a subject
What is a couplet?
Two lines of verse
Is the following poem free verse or traditional?
The hallway hums with echoes—
laughter, footsteps,
a locker door slamming like punctuation.
I breathe in the scent of pencil shavings and rain,
and wonder if growing up always sounds this loud.
Fill in the blank with a vocabulary word...
The student asked for a bandaid to ___________ their pain.
Alleviate
What is the mood of this couplet?
The moonlit waves kiss shores of white,
Then fade away into the night.
What is imagery?
Descriptive words that appeal to the reader's senses.
In which line does a shift happen in the following poem:
Beneath the gray and heavy sky,
The world felt hushed, the colors shy.
Then sunlight cracked the clouds apart—
A sudden warmth bloomed in my heart;
The day began again, alive.
Line 3
To violently attack; assault
A. Seldom B.Obliterate C. Assail D.Audacity
C. Assail