Poetry Terms
Uses sensory words (words that appeal to sense of sight, sound, hearing, touch, smell) to create a strong image
What is imagery?
"The fog is a cat." What type of figurative language is this?
What is a metaphor?
A long, songlike poem that tells a story. Often about love, sadness, death. Often has a repeated chorus or refrain.
What is a ballad?
What is a row of words in a poem?
What is a line?
The author's attitude toward his or her subject.
What is tone?
The tires screeched as the car came to a stop. What is this an example of?
What is onomatopoeia?
Her dress is as white as snow. What figurative language is this an example of?
What is simile?
Name the poem type:
I know an old owl named Boo
Every night he yelled "Hoo!"
Once a kid walked by
and started to cry
and he yelled "I don't have a clue!"
What is a limerick?
What are poetry paragraphs?
What are stanzas?
What sound device is in these lines?
I think that I shall never see
a poem lovely as a tree.
What is rhyme?
Cool crazy cats called to order cantaloupes. What is this an example of?
What is alliteration?
A type of language in which writers convey something other than the literal meaning of words
What is figurative language?
Over the wintry
Forest, winds howl in rage
With no leaves to blow.
What type of poem?
What is a haiku?
A poem that uses a 5-7-5 syllable structure and has 3 lines.
What is haiku?
A poem that tells a story is called a.....
What is a narrative poem?
The narrator of a poem is called the...?
What is the speaker?
The sunlight streamed through the window and beckoned him to come out and play. What type of figurative language is this?
What is personification?
Mountains,
Purple and gray,
What type of poem?
Rising sharply into the clouds,
Rocky and jagged,
Covered with pines and scrubby brush,
Home to birds, squirrels, and nimble mountain goats,
Looking over the plain majestically.
What is free verse?
How many lines are usually in one stanza in a ballad poem?
Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
What is rhythm?
How the reader feels after reading the poem?
What is mood?
Mrs. Herod gave us a ton of homework over the weekend! What type of figurative language is this?
What is hyperbole?
A five line, silly poem that has an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
Repeated use of words, phrases, lines, etc.
What is repetition?