Mixed Bag 2
When glue sticks on you it is gross.
This line is an example of the sound device....
What is internal rhyme?
In which part of this stanza is their personification?
The redbud trees invite the bees
To feast upon their flowers?
Answer: Inviting is something a human does, so the trees inviting the bees is the personification.
What is the tone of this stanza?
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And over to a man,
The fellow stands or
Falls down on his knees.
Swarming around me,
Like a hive of honey bees.
What is a confident and sassy tone?
The breaks between stanzas (white space) can often be used for this reason.
To show that the poem topic is changing from one idea to another.
What point of view are these lines written in?
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,
What is 1st person point of view?
When a poem doesn't rhyme or follow a structure, we call it this.
What is free verse?
We call it that because it lacks rhyme and rhythm.
Why is this an example of iambic stress pattern?
Amazing grace how sweet the sound...
Because each foot of the line (each two syllables) follows an unstressed/stressed pattern.
Why are the lines below an example of imagery?
His hair dripped with sweat
That sprinkled like mini raindrops on his nose
But he shot the round orb anyway
Which rose like an orange arc till it swished through
the hoop.
The lines use words to help the reader picture, feel, hear something.
When a poem tells a story and has characters, we call it this.
What is narrative poetry?
What impression does the speaker create in these lines?
Stand tall, don't ball
It's not the time to cry
Look that bully in the eye
His strength will start to fall.
A feeling of determination.
Swoosh, tinkle, jingle, bzzz are examples of
onomatopoeia
Why is this poem a haiku?
Oh, to be moonlight’s
Soft caress across her cheek
During pillow dreams
Because there are three lines, because the syllables in the 1st line are 5, in the 2nd line are 7, and the 3rd line are 5...
And because the poem captures a moment in time.
What is the meaning of the Latin prefix im-
Into
Like, imprison means to PUT INTO prison
Like, implode means to EXPLODE INTO ITSELF
What would make a poem lyrical?
It sounds like music.
What sound device is used in the following line from a poem?
Since Santa snuck my sneakers in
What is alliteration?
This sentence is an example of what figure of speech?
The girl is an angel in disguise.
What is a metaphor?
This is the reason a ballad is called a narrative poem.
What is "it tells a story and there are characters."
What is the meaning of the suffix --ous
What is having many
Like, danger/dangerous...having many dangers
This poem praises (says really nice things about) a person or a thing.
What is an ode?
What is another word we learned for "subject complement?"
What is a predicate nominative?
Like in the sentence "The cat is the master of the house," cat is the subject of the sentence, the linking verb is "is," and the subject nominative is "master" because the linking verb makes it like we are saying the cat = the master.
Another word for saying predicate nominative is subject complement.
This line of poetry has a repetition of vowel sounds, so what sound device is it an example of?
The sounds did leap into the deep without a peep.
What is assonance?
This poem has 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
What kind of sentence is it when you give an order?
What is imperative?
Why is this line of a poem an allusion?
I believed him
I followed him
Like Adam and Eve
In the Garden of Eden
An allusion makes us understanding what's being said by comparing one thing to something else that is really famous, like a historic event, a famous character in a book, etc.
In this example, most people know the story of Adam and Eve being tricked by the snake in the Garden of Eden, so we know the "him" being spoken about was untrustworthy and that the speaker in this poem was gullible (easily led).
In this sentence, which is the direct object and which is the indirect object?
The dad handed the child the birthday gift.
The direct object is the gift because it's what's being given, and to whom it is being given (the child) is the indirect object.