Poetic Devices
Simile
This type of poem has no structure or pattern
Free Verse
Who wrote Sonnet number 18 that we read together?
William Shakespeare
What poet is most famous for his sonnets?
William Shakespeare
What is the shortest poem we read in this class?
"And The Ghosts" by Graham Foust
They own everything.
"The sun stretched out its warm fingers towards the earth's cold land" is what type of imagery device?
Personification
This type of poem physically represents something that relates to the poem itself.
Concrete Poem
Who wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken"?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Robert Frost
What poet usually writes AABB or ABAB poems about kids, adventures, or exaggerated situations?
Shel Silverstein
What type of poem is this:
I had a friend named Bob
He was imaginary
I don’t miss him though
Haiku
"We were a crispy crust of conversation in the fading light" is what type of sound device?
Alliteration
This three lined poem follows a syllable pattern of 5/7/5.
Haiku
Who wrote "Tony Steinberg: Brave 7th Grade Viking Warrior"?
Taylor Mali
Why did Dylan Thomas write "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night"?
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
He wrote it for his dying father
What term do we use to describe the physical arrangement of the words on the page as well as any patterns or structure within the lines?
Form
"The dog was a bolt of lightening streaking across the field after the ball" is what type of imagery device?
Metaphor
A long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of persons.
Epic Poem
Which poem did we read by Tupac?
"The Rose that Grew From Concrete"
Taylor Mali writes what types of poems?
SLAM poems
What poetic device is a statement that contradicts itself?
Paradox
"The day was hot as snot boiling in a pot" is what type of sound device?
Assonance
A poem made up of 14 lines, each being 10 syllables long. Its rhymes are arranged in three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet.
Sonnet
What type of poem is this:
There was an old man with a beard
Who said, "it’s just how I feared!
Two owls and a hen
Four larks and a wren
Have all built their nests in my beard.
Limerick
What poet tried to burn all of her poems? (Her friend managed to stop her and save most of them)
Emily Dickinson
What is the oldest poem?
The Epic of Gilgamesh