Poetry Vocab

We read a poem called "Alone" by

• Tupac Shakur

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Zora Neal Hurston

• Maya Angelou

"Still I Rise" by

• Tupac Shakur

• Maya Angelou

• Zora Neale Hurston

She is soulful like a hummingbird.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Figure of Speech

• Repetition

Stanza

• a set of lines in a poem

• a line in the poem

• a point of view

• personal stance

Arthur was a thorn in mind side.

• Simile

• Metaphor

I rise through the suppression, I rise through the depression, I rise despite your transgressions

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Imagery

• Repitition

There are hundreds of people in the bathroom.

• Exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

A quatrain

• a stanza that contains three lines

• a stanza that contains five lines

• a stanza that contains four lines

• a stanza that contains six lines

A message you get after reading

• Symbol

• Message

• Theme

• Mood

The pigs chuckled

• Rhyme

• Personification

• Purpose

• Simile