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Types of Figurative Language
Annotating the Text
Sound Devices
Types of Poetry
Structure
100
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
What is imagery.
100
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This line or phrase is cool or interesting.
100
Use of words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia.
100
Long narrative poems that tell an exciting or inspiring story, usually about a hero.
What is a Epic.
100
Arrangement of groups of lines to create an appearance on the page or to organize thoughts.
What is a Stanza.
200
Gives human qualities to something nonhuman.
What is personification.
200
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I don't understand this line or phrase.
200
Repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds. Ex. Fade and Hay
What is Assonance.
200
Fourteen-line poems with a formal tone that follow a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a Sonnet.
200
Help poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into many individual parts.
What is Lines.
300
Describes one thing as if it were something else.
What is metaphor.
300
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This line or phrase is important (reveals the theme or main point of the poem).
300
Repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds. Ex. End and Hand
What is Consonance.
300
Poems with a formal tone, written for the single purpose of celebrating or honoring a person, object, or idea.
What is an Ode.
300
Rhythmical pattern, or arrangement and number of stressed and unstressed syllables. Ex. whose WOODS these ARE i THINK i KNOW
What is Meter.
400
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is simile.
400
If you look at a poem a bit closer, you first write about What you Read. Next we write about What you_____________.
Think.
400
Pattern of strong and weak beats, as well as pauses, in a poem.
What is Rhythm.
400
Humorous five-line poems with a specific rhythmic pattern and an aabba rhyme scheme.
What is a Limerick.
400
Pair of rhyming lines that usually have the same meter and length.
What is Rhyming Couplets.
500
Makes a reference to people, places, events, or a literary work.
What is allusion.
500
Finally, the last thing we write about (when we look at a poem a bit closer) is What I _____________.
Wonder.
500
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration.
500
Defined by its lack of strict structure. It has no regular meter, no intentional rhyme, no fixed line length, and no specific stanza pattern.
What is a Free Verse Poem.
500
Pattern of rhyme in a poem Ex. aabb
What is Rhyme Scheme.