Figurative Language
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?
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?
A long poem about a specific person, idea, or tangible object.
What is an ode?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts.
What is soliloquy?
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.”
**Hint: It is similar to alliteration, but instead of repeating consonant sounds, it repeats vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
A poem that tells about the heroic actions of a person.
What is an epic?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
What is an aside?
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?
Splat! Pow! Whoosh!
What is onomatopoeia?
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?
A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past in a folktale or legend.
What is a ballad?
What is 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?
Name the 3 major types of plays/dramas and what each one talks about.
Tragedy - A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
Comedy - A type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having a cheerful ending.
History - Based on a historical narrative, often set in the medieval or early modern past.