Staar Poetry Review

Giving human qualities to non-human objects

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Creates an image in your mind

• mood

• imagery

• rhyme scheme

• simile

Paragraph for a poem

• rhyme

• line

• stanza

• rhyme scheme

A figurative expression that doesn't mean what it says

• idiom

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

The big idea or lesson from a reading is called the ______________________.

• theme

• compare and contrast

• resource materials

• evidence

a comparison using like or as (Ex.: my dog is as smelly as dirty socks)

• stanza

• theme

• simile

Groups of lines in a poem

• stanza

• theme

• lines

When finding the theme, you have to _________________ because the author will NOT come out and tell you the theme.

• predict

• natural resource

• infer

Examples, ideas, or direct quotations from the text that support your answer is _________________________.

• conjunction

• figurative language

• theme

• evidence

a type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create effects

• personification

• figurative language

• poetry

• line