Figurative Language
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
What is alliteration?
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern
What is free verse?
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson an author wants us to learn from the poem.
What is the theme?
A group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
What is ABAB?
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
The attitude of the author toward his subject.
What is tone?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects or things.
What is personification?
What poetic device is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.
What is repetition?
A poem that can be humorous in nature and has 5 lines with AABBA rhyme scheme?
What is a limerick
The atmosphere or feeling of the poem.
What is mood?
She sells seashells down by the seashore
What is alliteration?
The trees danced in the wind
What is personification?
Silence your cellphone so that it does not beep during the movie.
What is onomatopoeia?
A long, narrative poem that usually that is usually about heroic deeds and events Many ancient writers used this to tell tales of intense adventures and heroic feats.
What is epic poetry?
serious, humorous, amused, angry, playful, cheerful, sad, gloomy...
These are examples of what in a poem
What is tone?
Find the examples of personification in the following:
Hey diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed, to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the Spoon.
What is "the little dog laughed" "The dish ran away with the spoon"
What is an expression whose meaning is different from the meanings of its individual words?
What is an idiom.
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
This is an example of...
What is rhythm?
Farmers bring in the harvest from the land.
Animals prepare for the winter chill.
Leaves fall from the trees -- floating
Lightly to the ground.
What is an acrostic poem?
romantic, realistic, optimistic, pessimistic, gloomy, mournful, sorrowful...
These are examples of what poetic device?
What does the poetry analysis strategy TPCASTT stand for?
What is Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title, and Theme.