Structural Basics
Rows of writing in a poetry.
What is a line?
A word that ends with the same sound as another word, like hop and stop.
What is rhyme?
A comparison between two unlike things that uses "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The lesson or message of a text.
What is theme?
Elsa was using this poetic device when she said, "The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside."
What is a simile?
Lines grouped together like a paragraph in poetry.
What is a stanza?
This is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry (number of syllables, patterns of stressed and unstressed beats).
What is meter?
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
True or False? A theme statement is a complete sentence that states the message, without mentioning characters or specific events.
True.
Katy Perry was using this poetic device when she said, "Baby you're a firework."
What is a metaphor?
True or False? All poems have to follow grammatical rules.
False.
What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza below?
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
What is AABA?
An obvious and deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, intended for effect and not to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
Someone who has mental pictures of sheep as they are reading "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is using this...
What is imagery?
Vanessa Carlton was using this poetic device when she said she would walk 1,000 miles just to see someone.
What is hyperbole?
This is the mark or punctuation at the end of the line of poetry.
What is an end mark?
When a series of words in a row have the same first sound: “The cat climbed up the curtain.”
What is alliteration?
The act or technique of giving human attributes to things that are not human.
What is personification?
The mood of the text focuses on the feelings of the ______, and the tone of the text focuses on the feelings of the ______.
Audience, Reader
Led Zeppelin used this poetic device when they said, "My world it smiles."
What is personification?
Do you remember... How many lines does a Shakespearean Sonnet have?
What are 14 lines?
The formation or use of words whose sounds suggest the meanings of the words, such as “pow,” “moo,” or “jingle.”
(and you have to spell it correctly!)
What is onomatopoeia?
This is a comparison that occurs over multiple lines or an entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
Repeating words for emphasis in a poem or story.
What is repetition?
Ne-Yo was using this poetic device when he said he was, "So sick of love songs, so sad and slow."
What is alliteration?