Identification One
Falling in love feels like a thousand crickets jumping around in my chest.
What is a simile?
Life is a highway.
What is a metaphor?
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
What is alliteration?
"But we loved with a love that was more than love—"
The italicized words are an example of...
What is repetition or alliteration?
The author of this sonnet is...
Who is William Shakespeare?
"Mother to Son" was written by...
Who is Langston Hughes?
This poem was written by...
Who is Kobe Bryant?
"Incident in a Rose Garden" is considered a ___________ poem since he has a clear plot diagram.
What is narrative?
Lightning danced across the sky.
What is personification?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
The question mark is a __________.
What is end stop?
Choo choo
Buzz
Hizz
What is onomatopoeia?
"With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven..."
Seraphs of Heaven is an...
What is an allusion?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments, love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
The end rhymes are creating a...
What is a rhyme scheme?
This particular author wrote during the ____________________ Renaissance.
What is Harlem?
In the Great Western Forum is an example of a ____________.
What is allusion?
Who/what arrived in the rose garden?
What is death?
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
This is written in __________ verse.
What is free?
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
The lack of punctuation at the end of lines is a...
What is an enjambment?
"So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay"
Eden is an example of an...
What allusion?
"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams..."
The rhyming of beams and dreams is an example of...
What is internal rhyme?
"Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night." This is an example of a _______..
What is a simile?
"Mother to Son" is an extended metaphor comparing life to a...
What is a broken stair case?
But because YOU called me.
I did everything for YOU
Basketball is being compared to a real person. This is an example of...
What is personification?
A type of irony when the audience thinks the story will go a specific way, but the opposite happens.
Situational
Dramatic
Verbal
What is situational?
"I am nobody! Who are you?"
The exclamation point is considered a ___________.
What is a caesura?
"The old man walked down the street, down the street, down the street"
The phrase 'down the street' is an example of...
What is repetition?
The sky is very sunny. (A)
The children are funny. (A)
Under the tree we sit, (B)
But just for a bit. (B)
Th labels 'A' & 'B' are examples of a...
What is rhyme scheme?
"And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side..."
The repetition of the "I" sounds is an example of...
What is assonance?
What is the central message?
What is intense love and devotion can turn into restlessness and obsessiveness?
The format of this poem was ____________ verse.
What is free?
I never saw the end of the tunnel is an example of...
What is an idiom?
“Fear had given him legs” (Line 3).
Fear is given human characteristic traits.
What is personification?
“The grass was green, and the flowers were red.”
What is imagery?
Be bold.
Be brief.
Be gone.
The repetition of the word 'be' is an example of a...
What is anaphora?
What is the main purpose of an end stop?
What is to show that a thought has ended?
"And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes..."
The author is using _________ to appeal to our sight
What is imagery?
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head,
To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:
What is happening in this stanza?
What is the speaker is sleepy, hurrying to bed, is tired from the day, but a journey begins in his mind, and he can't fall asleep.
Provide a theme statement for this poem. Don't forget about the theme statement formula!
What is In Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son," a theme that is prevalent throughout the poem is that you should never give up even when life is hard?
I fell in love with you.
A love so deep I gave you my all
From my mind & body
To my spirit & soul.
The author is using ____________ to appeal to the senses.
What is imagery?
At the beginning of the poem, we think Death has come for the old __________, but Death actually came for the __________ master.
What is a gardener and young?