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?
The most common form of rhyme:
Twinkle twinkle little star
how I wonder what you are
What is end rhyme?
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?
This technique is when the poet uses words that sound like what they mean
What is onomatopoeia?
A lyrical poem meant to be sung and praise something.
What is an ode?
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 Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
Two lines grouped in one stanza.
What is a couplet?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What sound technique 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 Japanese poem that follows a structure of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
A pattern of weak syllables followed by strong syllables. This specific form has 10 syllables per line and was often used by William Shakespeare
What is iambic pentameter?
The repetition of consonant sounds.
What is consonance?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
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?
Rhyming that occurs in the middle of a line
What is internal rhyme?
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?
The flame of the candle danced in the wind.
What is personification?
What technique is used in this excerpt from The Tyger by William Blake?
"What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?"
What is parallel structure
A poem written in a way so that it looks like an object or action
What is a shape poem?
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?
What form of poetry is this? Why?
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.