Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
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 the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is a hyperbole?
Buzz, bang, pow, whack
What is onomatopoeia?
A poem that spells a word vertically and creates a poem horizontally.
What is an acrostic?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
When the audience/reader knows something the character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
What tool 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 with 3 lines that have a set amount of syllables
What is a haiku?
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration?
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
Warm winds, whip through the willows.
What is alliteration?
A poem with 5 lines and a very strict form: line 1=1 word, line 2=2 words, line 3=3 words, line 4=4 words, line 5=1 word
What is a cinquan?
From the word choice: dead, blood, treacherous, savage, prey, murdered, strangled, we can assume the theme...
calm, cool
cruel, bloodthirsty
rough, stormy
smooth, silky
What is cruel and bloodthirsty?
Ms. Conley's birthday!
What is January 29th?