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 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 hyperbole?
The bottle fizzed then popped.
What is onomatopoeia?
A poem meant to praise something or someone.
What is an ode?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is the tone?
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?
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 the mood?
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
The blind man touched the tree to learn if its skin was smooth or rough.
What is imagery?
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 Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
There was a heavy thunderstorm, the wind snorted outside, rattling my windowpanes.
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?
5,7,5
What is a haiku?
The rhyme scheme of this passage: 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?
It consists of two syllables, the first of which is not stressed, while the second syllable is stressed.
What is an iamb?