Terms
Poetry Examples
A Healing Stone
Universal Soldier
Rhyme Schemes
100
A bold, deliberate overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
100
My luvs like a red, red rose
What is simile?
100
The poet for A Healing Stone.
What is Monica Goulet
100
The poet of Universal Soldier.
Who is Buffy Sainte Marie
100
Summer Breeze Flowers bloom in sultry air Blue skies wash away the glare The breeze flutters, leaves dance A cardinal flies and kittens prance
What is aabb
200
A comparison made between two unlike objects
What is metaphor?
200
Rose for love.
What is symbol?
200
The shape of the stone.
What is a heart?
200
The rhyme scheme of the poem.
What is abcb
200
There once was a big brown cat That liked to eat a lot of mice. He got all round and fat Because they tasted so nice.
What is abab
300
An image that stands for or represents something else.
What is symbol?
300
My car was happy to be washed.
What is personification?
300
The place the stone came from.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
The poem is written in
What is stanza (4 lines)
300
We have but faith: we cannot know For knowledge is of things we see And yet we trust it comes from thee A beam in darkness: let it grow
What is abba
400
Human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
400
I'd give my right arm for a piece of pizza.
What is hyperbole?
400
The reason she lost the stone.
What is a healed heart?
400
The amount of stanzas in the poem.
What is 6
400
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room
What is abcb
500
A comparison using the words "like" or "as".
What is simile?
500
The leaves of life keep falling one by one.,
What is a metaphor?
500
Image found in the poem
What is heart shaped stone
500
An example of hyperbole is found in the first stanza.
What is he's been a soldier for a thousand years?
500
Loving red hair, adorns your gown, mantled on shoulders, with blessed renown. Fulfilled with your beauty, drawn by your grace. Encased by your charm, in love I am drown.
What is aaba