Figurative Language
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
This poem depicted making two choices in life, where each choice is represented by a road.
What is "The Road Not Taken"
A metaphor that runs throughout a poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
Also recognized by using words like "All," or "Never"
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?
When two lines form a rhyming stanza.
What is a couplet.
This poem explains the way the author wants people to read poetry vs the way they want to read poetry.
What is Introduction to Poetry?
Imagery is described as using these.
The five senses
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
What sound device tool is used in this quote?
“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
These act as the paragraphs of a poem, represented by line breaks.
What is a stanza?
This poem depicts life in Lincoln Nebraska, where the author wants people to eat cheese and walk down to the rivers muddy banks.
What is Ode to the Midwest?
This poet is known for his famous children collections such as "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Who is Shel Silverstein?
This device describes a repeated word, or phrase.
What is repetition?
This device is known as the word representing the sound it makes.
Onomatopoeia.
This form represents three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
This poet taught at Amherst University.
Who is Robert Frost?
Identify the three examples of personification 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?"
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
"The flame of the candle danced in the wind." is an example of what?
What is personification?
What sound device is represented in the following passage?
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 consonance?
This term describes the way a person should read a poem (without pausing for line breaks).
What is Enjambment?
This poet was "poet laureate" for the United States.
Who is Billy Collins?
This type of poem is written in remembrance of someone.
Ode or Elegy