English I Poetry

Bonus: Who is a famous English Renaissance poet?

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Kid President

• William Shakespeare

• Aesop

Bonus: Who is an American poet who kept all (most) of her poetry hidden in her room until after she died.

• Martha Washington

• Betsy Ross

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Emily Dickinson

Bonus: Finish this famous line of poetry--
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a __________

• tree

• teacher

• Chromebook

• do-re-mi

Poetry uses _________ devices like rhythm and rhyme.

• sight

• smell

• touch

• sound

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• true

• false

What is rhyme?

• repetition of a letter

• repetition of an ending sound

• comparing two things using like or as

What is meter?

• words that sound the same

• sophisticated vocabulary

• pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• length of the poem

What is alliteration?

• using synonyms

• words that sound like their meaning

• exagerrating

• repetition of initial consonant sound

What is a refrain?

• a line that is REpeated

• the last line of a poem

What is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?

• simile 

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole