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 or rhyme scheme.
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?
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.
'We are nearer to Spring
Then we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
The repetition of similar sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
Two lines of a verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a couplet?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What figurative language tool/sound device 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?
What kind of rhyme scheme is:
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Internal rhyme
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 type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
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 Dickinson
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
What is the rhyme scheme?
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;
What is ABAAB?
Mike likes his new bike.
In an example of what type of sound device?
What is consonance?
What is the mood of the following passage?
“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”
Calm and/or peaceful.
This creates a regular pattern in poetry, giving the poem a pattern.
What is rhythm?