Poetry & Figurative Language

What is the purpose of a poem?

• Inform

• Entertain

• Confuse

• Persuade

Rhyme Scheme is...

• The repetition of words or lines

• The rhyming pattern of a poem

• Rhythm that continuously repeats

• Something that represents or stands for something else

How many stanzas does this poem have?

Archery

It’s like touching without touching,

except when there is, also, touching.

We pull the bowstrings back

and parallel together,

aiming a handsbreadth higher

than we believe we intend,

and let the glove move where we draw the wire,

scared that the machinery

will misinterpret us,

that we may not stop trembling, that we may lose

our belief in ourselves

before anything is released, or shared, or sent.

• 5

• 2

• 4

• 3

What is Mood ?

• the feeling the reader gets from the poem

• how you feel in the morning

• the attitude expressed by the writer in the poem

• feelings

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is symbolism?

• When something represents or stands for something else

• One row of text in a poem

• Repeated pattern of sound

• Poetry in general

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is Rhythm?

• Poetry in general

• One row of text in a poem

• A line of a poem

• Repeated pattern of sound

An exaggeration so dramatic that it is obviously not true, is called?

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A comparison of two things that are not alike, using the words "like" or "as", is called?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

When a set of words uses the same sound or letters repeatedly, is called?

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

The use of descriptive words that appeal to the five senses, are called?

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3D