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?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
When an author uses descriptions of the senses to set the mood.
What is imagery?
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 is only 3 lines and is about nature or beauty.
What is a haiku?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
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?
This is the narrator of a poem.
What is the speaker?
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?
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 type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines. Shakespeare was famous for writing them.
What is a sonnet?
Janet Wong's poem "Speak Up" had this tone.
What is empowered/frustrated/angry?
What form of poetry is this? Why?
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.