POETRY TERMS
Example: Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long. metaphor
Example: The car sputtered and coughed exhaust. metaphor
the attitude of the writer or the speaker towards the subject of the poem or toward the audience. tone
Example: They watched him threaten the woman’s throat. alliteration
Example:The bat went CRACK as it connected with the ball. onomatopoeia
Feelings, Now by Katherine Foreman Poem type: Free form or fixed form Feelings, Now by Katherine Foreman Some kind of attraction that is neither Animal, vegetable, nor mineral, a power not Solar, fusion, or magnetic And it is all in my head that I could see into his And find myself sitting there. free
Double, double toil and trouble, consonance
A poem that expresses an emotion or tells how the author feels about life. Lyric poem
-a type of poem or poetry that has a required form Fixed form
the voice that talks directly to us in a poem. speaker
A poem that tells a story Narrative poem
Example: Life is like a box of chocolates. simile
Example: I’m so hungry that I could eat a cow. hyperbole
metaphor When rhymes are close but not exact Like Storm and Room Or bone and gone metaphor
Write the Rhyme Scheme of the poem below Nelson’s the greatest ninja I know She is quick, and you are slow If you don’t study, she’ll chop you All because she knows Kung-fu AABB