Figurative Language
the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is a alliteration?
Three grey geese in a green field grazing
What is alliteration?
Paul laughed.
What is complete?
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.
What is ABAB?
Holly, sitting by the window.
What is fragment?
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
Fact or opinion:
It's too late for the baby to be awake.
What is opinion?
a comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
Zoom! Blam! Crash!
What is onomatopoeia?
I love to write papers I would write one every day if I had the time.
What is a run-on?
The feeling or atmosphere of a poem.
What is mood?
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
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?
This type of sentence combines a fragment and a complete sentence.
Ex. When the cake is brown, take it out of the oven.
What is a complex sentence?
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?
This type of sentence combines two complete sentences.
Ex. I really want to go to work, but I am too sick to drive.
What is a compound sentence?
The following words convey this type of tone: lighthearted, whimsical, carefree, content
What is positive?
In what season does the following poem take place?
Breezes are blowing,
leaves are falling,
a chill is in the air.
Winter is coming,
farmers harvesting,
green foliage is rare.
What is autumn or fall.