Sound Devices
It was the best of times,
It was the worst of times,
It was the age of wisdom,
It was the age of foolishness
What is ANAPHORA?
"All hands on deck!" cried the ship captain.
What is SYNECDOCHE?
How many syllables in this line?:
"Hope" is the thing with feathers --
What is 7?
After previewing the title and reading the poem, what do you do next?
What is PARAPHRASE THE POEM?
What is the central message or insight revealed through a literary work?
The sweet birds sang softly
What is ALLITERATION?
(also will take consonance)
He crashed into a wall without making a sound,
Into a dry creek bed and suddenly drowned.
If you doubt my lies are true
Just ask the blind man, he saw it too
What is OXYMORON?
What type of stanza?:
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 QUATRAIN?
What does the F stand for?
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!
What is HYPERBOLE?
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils
What is END RHYME?
The night is a big black cat
the moon is her topaz eye,
the stars are the mice she hunts,
in the field of the sultry sky.
What is METAPHOR?
(also will take personification)
What type of line structure?:
To be, or not to be--that is the question
What is CAESURA?
How do you determine "attitude" in the poem?
What is LOOK AT THE DICTION AND CONNOTATIONS?
What is the rhyme scheme?:
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
What is ABCB?
Bang!
Boom!
Pow!
Quack!
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
I walked into room number 222.
There was a large sign saying:
'How to deal with rejection',
But I was sent home--
There was not enough room.
What is SITUATIONAL IRONY?
What is it called when a poem has a meter but no rhyme scheme?
What is BLANK VERSE?
Name one way a shift might be indicated in a poem.
Change of time or place
Key turn word (but, then, yet)
Punctuation/pauses
Stanza divisions
Changes in line and stanza length
Changes in subject
A question is being answered
A touch of cold in the Autumn night –
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer
What is SIMILE?
or
What is PERSONIFICATION?
NAME ALL FOUR DEVICES:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
What is INTERNAL RHYME, ALLITERATION, END RHYME, and ONOMATOPOEIA?
Also could be repetition or consonance!
She's on the rag
It's shark week
Aunt Flo has arrived
Mother nature is flying the red flag
She's got the moon sickness
It's that time of the month
What is EUPHEMISM?
What is speaker?
What is THE NARRATOR OR VOICE OF THE POEM?
Create a theme statement about "love."
Answers vary.
The word comes from the Dakota word for waterfall and is the name of a female character from a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem. The word is also a park, creek, and academy in Minnesota.
What is MINNEHAHA?