What is Poetry
A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form.
What is poetry?
Giving human-like qualities to a non-human thing.
What is personification?
The world is a stage.
What is metaphor?
Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
What is rhyme?
What is the rhyme scheme for the following poem?
The cat sat on the mat,
he wore a funny hat.
He looked quite proud and grand,
While holding a little hand.
What is AABB
The author of a poem
What is poet?
Words that imitate the sound they are naming.
What is onomatopoeia?
I've told you a million times.
What is hyperbole?
Is a pattern of rhyme. It uses letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually "see" the pattern.
What is rhyme scheme?
What is the rhyme scheme for the following?
The sun is shining bright,
The birds are singing sweet.
The day feels just right,
As children dance on their feet.
What is ABAB?
The "narrator" of the poem.
What is the speaker
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words.
What is alliteration?
The leaves rustled softly in the wind.
What is onomatopoeia?
pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
In the garden, flowers bloom,
Their colors bright and bold,
A story waiting to be told,
Amidst the gentle gloom.
What is AABBA
The appearance of the words on the page. Can be in lines or stanzas.
What is form?
Exaggeration often used for emphasis
What is Hyperbole?
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line.
What is end rhyme?
What is the rhyme scheme for the following poem?
The waves crash on the shore,
The seagulls call and cry.
The tide comes in once more,
As the sun begins to die.
What is ABCB
When sounds, words, phrases, or lines are stated or used more than once in a line or stanza.
What is repetition?
An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression.
What is idiom?
She's a modern-day Cinderella
What is Allusion?
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
What is internal rhyme?
What is the rhyme scheme for the following poem?
In the forest, shadows play,
The sun peeks through the trees,
The mountains stand so tall,
Whispering to the breeze.
What is AABAB?