Figurative Language
Simile
Comparison using like or as
"Sweet as candy"
Verse
Written in lines and stanzas
Alliteration
Multiple words with the same beginning sound next to one another
"Taco Tuesday"
What happens at the end of "Casey at the Bat" ?
Metaphor
A direct comparison NOT using like or as
"He is a clown"
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem
Who the speaker of the poem is (1st vs 3rd person)
"I ran to the store"
vs
"He ran to the store"
In the poem "The New Colossus," what is The New Colossus?
The Statue of Liberty
Personification
Giving human-like qualities to non-human things
"The lightning danced across the sky."
Renaissance
Literally: "Rebirth"
A time period when many people are creating art, music, and literature
Anaphora
Repeated use of a phrase or group of words
"I have a dream...
I have a dream...
I have a dream..."
What did Langston Hughes say about dreams that are deferred in "Harlem" ?
Various correct answers
Should include something about deferred dreams being bad, festering, rotting, exploding, etc.
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration
"It cost, like, a trillion dollars!"
Prose
A story written in sentences and paragraphs (as opposed to poetry which is written in verse)
Imagery
Describing a place or thing with vivid detail
"The blue sky was a watercolor of pastel colors"
In Walt Whitman's "I hear America Singing," why did the speaker choose to have the entire poem be only one single sentence?
Answers may vary:
Should include something about Walt Whitman wanting to say that America should be all together/unified/one and it being the time just before the Civil War.