Poetry

Poetry

Written to express ideas, emotions

Written to describe

Uses imagery and figurative language

Can use sound devices

Stanza and Line Breaks

Poets do not write across the page. A poet ends a line for a reason.

​Line Breaks

Roses are red
Violets are blue

Reading is fun
And so are you

Stanzas

Figurative Language

Simile

Comparing 2 unlike things with the words "like" or "as"


She runs as fast as a cheetah.

Simile

Metaphor

​Compare two things without "like" or "as"

He is a cheetah.

Metaphor

Personification

Giving human characteristics to non human things

The sun danced in the sky.

Personification

Hyperbole

​Extreme exaggeration

I have a million things to do.

Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Mrs. Braiden is a rock star!

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Multiple Choice

My alarm clock screams at me every morning at 6:00 A.M.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Multiple Choice

The bird hurled insults at me because I was too close to her nest.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Kylie is a ray of sunshine.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Nate is a Superman!

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

Multiple Choice

This back pack weights a TON!

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

The cupcake was a cavity waiting to invade my mouth.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Multiple Choice

After playing football on the cold, January day, his fingers were icicles.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Multiple Choice

Mrs. Molnar was as happy as a lark when all of her students made A's in her class.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Multiple Choice

My tennis shoes stuck out their tongues at my stinky feet after running the mile.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Multiple Choice

Running the mile was like climbing Mt. Everest.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Multiple Choice

The snow danced around in the wind.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Multiple Choice

Big, bad Bernie Bean-Toes ate two banana bunches

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• why does Ms. Schleiden let her cat eat bananas?

Onomatopoeia

Repetition

• sound device

• poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem

• emphasizes ideas and themes

Rhyme scheme

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.

Assonance

​Repetition of Vowel Sounds

Rise high in the bright sky.

Multiple Choice

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Rhyme

Multiple Choice

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Simile

Multiple Choice

What are words that imitate sounds?

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• simile
• synonyms

Multiple Choice

A group of lines in a poem separated with a blank line space.

• metaphor
• simile
• line
• stanza

Multiple Choice

the repetition of similar vowels in successive words

• simile

• alliteration

• assonance

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Lines or words that are repeated (because they are important)

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Personification

Multiple Choice

I balked when I saw the tall cop in the hall; I knew he was looking for you.

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• What did you do this time?!