1. POETRY TERMS

2. Example:
Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long.
metaphor

3. Example:
The car sputtered and coughed exhaust.
metaphor

4. the attitude of the writer or the speaker towards the subject of the poem or toward the audience.
tone

5. Example:
They watched him threaten the woman’s throat.
alliteration

6. Example:The bat went CRACK as it connected with the ball.
onomatopoeia

7. 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

8. Double, double toil and trouble,
consonance

9. A poem that expresses an emotion or tells how the author feels about life.
Lyric poem

10. -a type of poem or poetry that has a required form
Fixed form

11. the voice that talks directly to us in a poem.
speaker

12. A poem that tells a story
Narrative poem

13. Example:
Life is like a box of chocolates.
simile

14. Example:
I’m so hungry that I could eat a cow.
hyperbole

15. metaphor When rhymes are close but not exact Like Storm and Room
Or bone and gone
metaphor

16. 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
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