A type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader’s imagination or emotions.
What is poetry?
A pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
What is rhyme scheme?
When you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal, everyday meaning.
What is figurative language?
What is this an example of? Five friendly frogs frolicked in the forest.
What is alliteration?
The person who writes the poem.
What is the poet?
A group of lines in a poem.
What are stanzas?
The lesson the author wants you to learn from the story.
What is theme?
What is this an example of: That test was a piece of cake.
What is an idiom?
What is this an example of? The wind whispered through the trees.
What is personification?
The person telling the story. This determines the point of view that the audience will experience.
What is the speaker?
A single line of words in a poem.
What is a line?
Poetry that does not rhyme
What is free verse?
What is this an example of: Kelly was as brave as a lion.
What is a simile?
What is this an example of? The rain pitter-pattered on the roof.
What is onomatopoeia?
A repetition of similar-sounding words at the end of lines in poems or songs.
What is rhyme?
The feeling the READER gets while reading a story. The mood can change throughout a piece of writing.
What is mood?
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
What is this an example of: The classroom was a zoo.
What is a metaphor?
What is this an example of? I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?