F.A.S.T. ELA

Giving human qualities/behaviors to non-human things.

• Free Verse

• Personification

• Imagery

• Poetic Form

Words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true but express a complex meaning.

• Personification

• Stanza

• Figurative Language

• Free Verse

Detailed words and phrases that engage a reader’s five senses.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Sonnet

Refers to the perspective a writer chooses to narrate a story.

• Narrator

• Point of View

• Central Idea

• Context

A group of two or more lines in a poem.

• Stanza

• Sonnet

• Rhyme Scheme

• Poetic Form

The writer or narrator’s attitude toward their subject (formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, cheerful, etc.)

• Free Verse

• Narrator

• Tone

• Metaphor

A comparison of two very different things without using “like” or “as”.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

The voice that tells a story, which varies in reliability.

• First person

• Narrator

• Point of View

• Third person

The structure or arrangement of lines, stanzas, and sound in a poem, designed to reflect topics in the poem. 

• Tone

• Hyperbole

• Poetic Form

• Free Verse

When a poem does not follow any particular rhyme scheme or meter. 

• Sonnet

• Free Verse

• Poetic Form

• Metaphor