Intro Poetry

In books, text is organized by sentences and paragraphs. But in poetry, the text is organized by:

• lines and stanzas

• ballads and novels

• phrases and pages

• nothing

Connotation is...

• the dictionary definition of a word or phrase.

• the figurative meaning of a word or phrase.

• kind of like math.

• how you pronounce a word.

"Her eyes are like the sun" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• synonym

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author
• Speaker
• Narrator
• Main character

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

The tree danced around in the breeze, is an example of...

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Whack! Went the fly swatter as I hit the fly, is an example of...

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

The following excerpt from "Annabel Lee" contains examples of what?

“It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know …

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,"

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

• haiku

Which of the following best describes the point of view the following poem is written in?

Mary had a little lamb,

Its fleece was white as snow;

And everywhere that Mary went

The lamb was sure to go.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• dynamic

What is mood?

• The theme

• The author's attitude/feelings

• The reader's attitude/feelings

• The main idea