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Poetry Practice
30 cards·by CPS Mitchell
How do you find rhyme scheme?
Look at the last word of each line and give it a letter according to it's sound.
"Summer grass aches and whispers" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
"August crouches on the bank" is an example of what poetic device?
Personification
"As he, defeated dying" is an example of what poetic device?
Alliteration
"Than when the cricket came" is an example of what poetic device?
Alliteration
"Hear the mellow wedding bells" is an example of what poetic device?
Assonance
"From the molten-golden notes" is an example of what poetic device?
assonance
Why is "Why I pondered weak and weary" an example of Alliteration?
the "w"s in weak and weary have the same beginning sound.
answer
"As if someone gently rapping, rapping" is an example of what poetic device?
Repitition
"maggie and millie and molly and may" is written using what?
couplets
"Velvet feels like hay" is an example of what type of figurative language?
simile
While I slept, while I slept and the night grew colder" is an example of what type of poetic
language?
Repition
"Was Worm swaddled in white Now tiny queen" is an example of what poetic device?
metaphor
Emily Dickinson wrote about these themes.
Nature, Death, Sadness
Langston Hughes wrote about these themes.
Racial Equality and Dreams
What was ee cummings was famous for?
Not using end punctuation or capital letters
How many lines does a sonnet have?
fourteen
How many syllables are in each line of a sonnet?
10
What does a sonnet end with?
a couplet
Which type of poetry always has a turning point in the poem?
A sonnet
What did Emily Dickinson title her poems?
She didn't, the first line is used as the title.
What was the meaning behind maggie and millie and molly and may?
Cummings believed that the sea was a good place to go to find yourself.
What is the theme of "youth" by Langston Hughes?
You can change the future.
What is Dickinson talking about in "A Narrow fellow in the Grass"?
a snake
What is approximate rhyme?
Words that have similar sounds but are not exactly rhymes.
Boom, Crash, Whoosh are all examples of what poetic device?
Onomatopeia
"To the turtle dove that listens while she gloats" is an example of what poetic device?
Consonance
What mood is usually found in Edgar Allen Poe's poems?
Dark, solemn, mysterious, sad
"Rivers and Meteors" is an example of what poetic device?
Assonance