Form in Poetry
This is the most basic unit of a poem.
A line.
Describing two or more things using "Like" or "As".
Simile.
A person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun.
Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
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Jane was walking down the hallway when Manny tripped her.
External
Dave's friends at school call him by this nickname.
Heartbeat.
Luigi is trapped in a spooky mansion after his brother, Mario, is kidnapped by ghosts.
Man Vs. Supernatural
A group of the most basic units of a poem.
A stanza.
Comparing two or more things WITHOUT using "Like" or "As".
Metaphor.
This describes a noun.
Adjective.
The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
ABBA
Eren has been invited to hang out with her friend Rick, but her mother expects her to be home to do chores. She is not sure what to do.
Internal.
This is the Essential Question of Unit 2.
(Daily Double)
How do our actions define us?
Frodo Baggins wants to destroy The One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom, but he also wants to keep the ring for himself.
Man Vs. Self
The writer's attitude toward a subject.
The tone.
The term for extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole.
An action word.
Verb.
Time and time and time
i've sought a perfect rhyme
time and time and time
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James was walking home from school when it started raining heavily.
External.
What is the name of the young teen who is given a bicycle by a police officer?
Jourdan Duncan
Mark Watney, an astronaut, finds himself stranded on the planet Mars and must find a way to survive.
Man Bs. Nature
This is the feeling behind a word.
Connotation
This is when a word IS the sound that it makes.
Example: Pop, bang, whoosh.
Onomatopoeia.
These describe verbs.
Adverbs.
I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams,
White woman that passion has worn
As the tide wears the dove-grey sands,
ABCA
A talented athlete who lost a big game must overcome a fear of failure before the final championship match.
Internal.
This King keeps Daedalus and his son trapped on the island of Crete.
King Minos.
Neo discovers that the world he knew is actually a simulation and that mankind has actually been enslaved by machines.
Man Vs. Technology
Repeated consonant sounds at the start of words.
Alliteration.
When an animal or object is given human abilities.
Personification.
This describes where and object is or when an action is happening.
Preposition.
There is grey in your hair.
Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath
When you are passing;
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A group of scientists battle ferocious dinosaurs in an isolated island nature reserve they thought they could control.
External.
Daedalus builds a temple to this god.
Apollo.
Katniss decides that The Hunger Games are cruel and unfair, and she must put an end to them.
Man Vs. Society