1. Warmup: Please write at least 3 sentences.
What is your favorite song? (if you don’t have a favorite song, choose a song you really like)
Why do you like this song?
What lyrics of the song particularly resonate with you? In other words, which lyrics do you really like?

3. Warmup: Please write at least 3 sentences.
What makes a poem a poem? In other words, what is your definition of poetry? Benchmarking Monday, February 26 Poetry Terms Test Thursday, March 1

4. Alliteration
Repetition of the first sound of a word

5. Allusion
Reference to a literary or historical person or event

6. Assonance
Repetition of a vowel sound

7. Consonance
Repetition of a consonant sound

8. Hyperbole
Exaggeration

9. Imagery
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses

10. Metaphor
Comparison of two unlike things

11. Onomatopoeia
Sound of a word suggests its meaning

12. Personification
Human qualities given to nonhuman things

13. Simile
Comparison using “like” or “as”

14. Couplet
Two rhymed lines of poetry

15. Meter
Beat of a poem; uses stressed and unstressed syllables

16. Rhyme Scheme
Pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines

17. Quatrain
Four lines of poetry with a specific rhyme scheme

18. Stanza
Group of lines that divide the poem

19. Tone
Attitude the speaker has toward the subject