Poetry

What is Alliteration?

• It is a clever joke told within the poem.

• When many words begin with the same sound.

• When the rhyme is at the end of the sentence.

• When they use the same words over and over.

What is the point of using Alliteration?

• To focus a reader's attention to that part.

• To be humorous.

• To give a passage rhyme.

• To distract the reader from the rest of the poem.

What is a pun?

• Dark humor within a poem.

• When there is a consistent Rhyme scheme.

• When two words have similar endings.

• A play on words.

What is an example of a pun?

• She had three kites that flew high.

• My joke about pizza was cheesy.

• Her face was red as a tomato.

• He had killed eight men.

What is rhythm in a poem?

• Repetition of similar syllables.

• The sensory and figurative language used in a poem.

• The “paragraph” of poetry.

• The patterned recurrence of sounds, usually made by stressed or unstressed syllables.

What is Rhyme in a poem?

• Repetition of similar sounds at the end of words.

• The sensory and figurative language used in a poem.

• The “paragraph” of poetry. Several lines in one unit.

• The patterned recurrence of sounds, usually made by stressed or unstressed syllables.

What is Imagery in a poem?

• Repetition of similar sounds at the end of words.

• The sensory and figurative language used in a poem.

• The “paragraph” of poetry. Several lines in one unit.

• The patterned recurrence of sounds, usually made by stressed or unstressed syllables.

What is a stanza in a poem?

• The sensory and figurative language used in a poem.

• Repetition of similar sounds at the end of words.

• The “paragraph” of poetry. Several lines in one unit.

• The patterned recurrence of sounds, usually made by stressed or unstressed syllables.

Identify the stanza and line amount in the following poem:

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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Then took the other, as just as fair

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

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And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

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I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

• Five stanzas of five lines each

• Four stanzas of four lines each

• Five stanzas of four lines each

• Four stanzas of five lines each

Read this section from a poem and answer the question about it below:

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne'er succeed

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need

Based on the context, what is the meaning of nectar?

• Something inside a flower.

• Something to be greatly desired.

• A beverage.

• The stem of a plant.