When something that is not human is given human qualities. Example - The tree danced in the wind.
What is personification?
100
When you put the words of the poems into your own words in order to help you better understand the poem.
What is paraphrasing.
100
A poem that has 3 lines, has no rhyme scheme, and is usually about nature.
What is a haiku?
100
A stanza or poem with FOUR lines.
What is a quatrain.
100
A repeating WORD or PHRASE in a poem.
What is a refrain.
200
a group of words or an entire poem that evokes a clear picture or emotion from the reader. Example - a long, cool, midday nap during a routine summer thunderstorm
What is imagery?
200
The words that TPCASTT stands for.
What is Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Style, Title, Theme
200
A five line poem with the rhyme scheme AABBA. It is usually humorous or rude. Example - "There Once Was a Man From Nantucket"
What is a limerick?
200
The rhyme scheme of this stanza:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
What is ABAB?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! If you get this correct, you get 600 points!
Paraphrase these two lines. Understand that the word "this" is referring only to the poem.
"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee."
As long as humans are around, this poem will live on and give life to you (the subject of the poem).
300
When a poem or text uses a metaphor that is continues over several lines or throughout an entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
300
A short, comprehensive message about life that the poem is trying to convey to the audience.
What is theme?
300
This poem has three quatrains and an ending couplet. This poem does NOT tell a story. There is a total of 14 lines.
What is an English or Shakespearean sonnet?
300
When something concrete (able to hold and touch) represents something that is abstract (something you cannot hold or touch.
Example - A rose and love.
What is symbolism?
300
Comparing two things using like or as.
Example - My shirt is as blue as a the sky.
What is a simile.
400
An example of this is "Bobby bounced the ball back to Blake."
What is alliteration?
400
The tone of the poem is addressed in this part of TPCASTT. It is the way the author is trying to making you feel.
What is Attitude?
400
A poem that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme. Examples include William Carlos William's "The Red Wheelbarrow" or Tupac's "A Rose that Grew From Concrete"
What is a free verse poem?
400
The AUTHOR'S ATTITUDE in a poem.
What is tone?
400
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all of his cash in a bucket
But his daughter named Nan
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
The last word is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is pun.
500
A sound word like click, crackle, boom, or splash.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The commonly used definition/ double meaning.
For example, Shakespeare uses the word "fair" in his poem. This can be interpreted in more than one way. He uses it to express more than one idea or feeling.
What is connotation?
500
Poetry that expresses a speaker's emotions or thoughts. Examples include ode and ballads.
What is lyric poetry?
500
The way a poem should make YOU feel. The emotions that a poem evokes.
What is mood?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Make your wager on a sheet of paper.
This excerpt is from the poem "Child" by Sylvia Plath
"Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
I want to fill it with color and ducks,
The zoo of the new"
What do you think "zoo of the new is?"
Zoo of the new is referring to all of the things that this "child" will learn.