Poetry Review

The main idea of a poem. What the author wants you to learn

• free verse
• cinquain
• theme
• metaphor

Which poetic structure is similar to a paragraph in prose?

• Speaker
• Couplet
• Stanza
• Refrain

Alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhyme are all...

• Poetic Structures
• Figurative Language
• Sound Devices
• Types of Poems

Which poetic structure is similar to a narrator in prose?

• Speaker
• Couplet
• Stanza
• Refrain

Which type of poem expresses feelings and emotions?

• Narrative
• Lyric
• Fixed Form
• Free Form

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

What is Frost thinking about in this poem?

• Love

• Desire

• Hate

• The end of the world

A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• personification
• poem
• metaphor
• simile

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• imagery

When You Are Old

^{BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS}

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

The rhyme scheme is

• ABCD ABCD ABCD

• AABB CCDD EEFF

• ABBA CDDC EFFE

• ABAB CDCD EFEF

At the End

_{by Ed Meek}

He was so old his bones seemed to swim in his skin.

And when I took his hand to feel his pulse

I felt myself drawn in. It was as faint

as the steps of a child

padding across the floor in slippers,

and yet he was smiling.

I could almost hear a river

running beneath his breath.

The water clear and cold and deep.

He was ready and willing to wade on in.

The italicized red lines are an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration