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Rhyme Time
Poem Type
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Figurative Language
Meter
100
Three horsemen galloped the dusty way/ While sun and moon were both in the sky;/ An old crone crouched in the cactus' shade,/ And craved an alms as they rode/
What is slant rhyme?
100
Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a)/ Admit impediments, love is not love (b)*/ Which alters when it alteration finds, (a)/ Or bends with the remover to remove. (b)*/ O no, it is an ever fixèd mark (c)**/ That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (d)***/ It is the star to every wand'ring bark, (c)**/ Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. (d)***/ Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e)/ Within his bending sickle's compass come, (f)*/ Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e)/ But bears it out even to the edge of doom: (f)*/ If this be error and upon me proved, (g)*/ I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (g)*/
What is a sonnet?
100
First T.
What is title, a chance to examine the the title and make predictions.
100
"Life is a journey, travel it well."
What is metaphor?
100
An iamb is a type of this.
What is a foot?
200
Whose woods these are I think I know,/ His house is in the village, though;/ He will not see me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow./
What is end rhyme?
200
old pond . . ./ a frog leaps in/ water’s sound /
What is a haiku?
200
C
What is connotation, a step that involves looking for figurative or abstract meaning or what the events in the poem might represent.
200
He fights like a lion.
What is simile?
200
Iambic Pentameter is a type of this.
What is meter?
300
I had a cat who wore a hat. / He looked cool but felt the fool.
What is internal rhyme?
300
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd;/ What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
What is a couplet?
300
S
What is shift? Look for changes in the poem's flow, plot, tone or language and examine them for possible meaning.
300
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 symbolism?
300
/ is a symbol for this.
What is a stressed syllable? will accept stressed
400
You stars that reign'd at my nativity,/ Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,/ Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist/ Into entrails of yon labouring clouds,/ That when they vomit forth into the air,/ My limbs may issue from their smoky mouths,/ So that my soul may but ascend to Heaven./
What is blank verse?
400
When I consider how my light is spent (a)/ Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, (b)/ And that one talent which is death to hide, (b)/ Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent (a)/ To serve therewith my Maker, and present (a)/ My true account, lest he returning chide; (b)/ "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" (b)/ I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent (a)/ That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need (c)/ Either man's work or his own gifts; who best (d)/ Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state (e)/ Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (c)/ And post o'er land and ocean without rest; (d)/ They also serve who only stand and wait." (e)/
What is a sonnet?
400
Third T
What is theme. Look for the theme of the poem.
400
I have mouths to feed.
What is synecdoche? Part stands for the whole.
400
When this changes, you can look for meaningful shift in a poem.
What is rhythm or meter?
500
Hope is the thing with feathers/ That perches in the soul,/ And sings the tune without the words,/ And never stops at all. /
What is slant rhyme?
500
古池や蛙飛込む水の音 ふるいけやかわずとびこむみずのおと
What is a haiku?
500
A
What is attitude? Examine the tone of the speaker.
500
The bag weighed a ton (not literally)
What is hyperbole?
500
This is why you call iambic pentameter iambic pentameter.
What is five iambic feet?