Haiku! Bless you! | Figuratively Speaking | Who's line is it anyway? | Analyze This |
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What is a tanka?
I have 31 syllables in the 5-7-5-7-7 form.
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What is a simile?
Using "like" or "as" to compare two things
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What is Do not go gentle into that good night?
Rage, rage against the dying of the night
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What is an interpretation?
An explanation of a poem by the reader.
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What is a verse?
A line of poetry
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What is alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds (hint: consonants are any letters that are NOT A,E,I,O,U)
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What is George Gray?
This poem is about a sailboat and how the person wished he went on adventures.
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What is Examine the Title?
This process asks the reader to analyze if the poem is symbolic, serious, sarcastic or descriptive.
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What is a quatrain?
4 verses of poetry
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What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things without using the word "like" or "as". For example: "All the world's a stage."
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What is Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou?
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. |
What is Literal meaning?
This is when something actually happens. For example, I have literally not eaten anything all day.
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What is a sonnet?
14 lines, with a couplet in the end
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What is personification?
Giving inanimate objects human like qualities
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What is Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. |
What is figurative meaning?
The meaning in which the main idea has an underlying theme. For example: "I can eat a cow." You cannot eat a cow but you are speaking in an abstract way.
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What is a ballad?
4 stanzas, 3 lines per stanza, last line (B) always rhymes and is usually about love.
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What is Onomatopoeia?
POW, BAM, POOF, are what kinds of words?
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What is Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet. Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air. |
What is imagery?
What is an expression of "seeing" something through other senses such as hearing, smell or touch.
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