Analyzing Poetry and Theme

It is a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.

• Ballad

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

It is a type of poetry that expresses strong emotions or feelings usually spoken in first person point of view.

• Lyric poetry

• Narrative Poetry

• Pastoral Poetry

What figurative language is used in the excerpt by William Wordsworth?"I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

Why did the author include the following figurative language? The wind howled and the trees trembeled at the peak of the storm.

• To show the movement of the storm over the different cities in the area.

• To describe the beauty of the trees in the storm as they swayed.

• To show the intensity of the storm by describing the effect on sound and movement.

• To explain how the people felt scared when the storm was at its worst because of how loud it was.

The sun is a yellow skittle shinning brightly in the sky.

What element of poetry does this sentence show?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• simile

It is a figurative language using human qualities or actions to describe an inanimate object.

• imagery

• personification

• rhyme scheme

• rhymes

How do you call a stanza that has 4 lines?

• couplet

• tercet

• quatrain

A type of poetry with no form or structure.

• free verse

• rhythm

• couplet

• hyperbole

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

• aabb

• abab

• abbc

• acba

What is imagery in poetry?

• The overall message or lesson of the poem.

• The use of words that sound like what they mean.

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

• The use of vivid language to create mental images.