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 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
Than we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
A three lined poem with 5 syllables on the first and third lines and 7 on the second
What is a haiku?
The attitude a poet has toward the subject of a poem.
What is tone?
A patter of unstressed-stressed syllables is called what?
What is Iambic?
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 poem?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem, the feeling that the poet wants the reader to have.
What is mood?
Where a sonnet changes it's focus on a topic
What is a turn?
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 Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
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?
A five lined poem with 5 syllables on the first and third line and 7 syllables on the second, fourth, and fifth lines.
What is a tanka?
A group of four lines is called a what?
What is a quatrain?