1. Figure out which terms are shown in each slide!
Poetry Term Examples
Figure out which terms are shown in each slide!

2. Look for TWO poetry terms in this one!
Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Peppers.
If Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Peppers,
Where Are The Pickled Peppers That Peter Piper Picked?
Example #1

3. ANSWER:
Alliteration
Repetition

4. Look for THREE poetry terms in this one!
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.
Example #2

5. ANSWER:
Personification
Rhyme
Alliteration

6. Look for ONE poetry term in this one!
“... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.”
Example #3

7. ANSWER:
Onomatopoeia

8. Look for THREE poetry terms in this one!υ ⁄ υ ⁄ υ ⁄ υ ⁄
“I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.”
Example #4

9. ANSWER:
Repetition
Rhythm
Rhyme

10. Look for FOUR poetry terms in this one!
Excerpt from:
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
Example #5

11. ANSWER:
Irony
Rhyme
Repetition
Alliteration

12. Look for FOUR poetry terms in this one!
“O My Luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O My Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.”
Example #6

13. ANSWER:
Simile
Rhyme
Alliteration
Repetition

14. Look for TWO poetry terms in this one!
“My life is a dream,
like a tiger waking
up from her deep sleep.”
Example #7

15. ANSWER:
Simile
Metaphor

16. Poetry in Motion

17. Feet Talk by Constance Levy
Listen to your feet
tell you where they walk:
gravel crackles,
grass squeaks,
sneaker slaps
on hard concrete.
Tune in to
friendly chitchat
of feet meeting feet
hurried shuffles, clacks, thumps
crossing busy streets
Hear your feet talk
street talk!
8. What are the five examples of onomatopoeia?
9. What are the three examples of personification?

18. Feet Talk by Constance Levy
Listen to your feet
tell you where they walk:
gravel crackles,
grass squeaks,
sneaker slaps
on hard concrete.
Tune in to
friendly chitchat
of feet meeting feet
hurried shuffles, clacks, thumps
crossing busy streets
Hear your feet talk
street talk!
8. There are five examples of onomatopeia.
9. There are three examples of personification.

19. Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!
10. What are the two similes in this poem?

20. Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!
The first simile helps you imagine and “hear” the rain described in the poem.
The second simile compares the sound of the rain to a swift, wide, muddy river.

21. from The Bat Poet by Randall Jarrell
A bat is born
Naked and blind and pale.
His mother makes a pocket of her tail
And catches him. He clings to her long fur
By his thumbs and toes and teeth.
And then the mother dances through the night
Doubling and looping, soaring , somersaulting--
Her baby hangs underneath.
All night, in happiness, she hunts and flies.
11. What are two examples of alliteration in this poem excerpt?

22. from The Bat Poet by Randall Jarrell
A bat is born
Naked and blind and pale.
His mother makes a pocket of her tail
And catches him. He clings to her long fur
By his thumbs and toes and teeth.
And then the mother dances through the night
Doubling and looping, soaring , somersaulting--
Her baby hangs underneath.
All night, in happiness, she hunts and flies.
The fourth example of alliteration gives you the sense of the bat dancing gracefully through the night.

23. Humanizing the World Computers are “user-friendly”
“misery loves company”
“the future beckons”
QUESTION:
12. Which poetry term is represented in these examples?

24. Humanizing the World Computers are “user-friendly”
“misery loves company”
“the future beckons”
QUESTION:
12. Which poetry term is represented in these examples?
ANSWER:
Personification

25. E.K. Hornbeck Returns! “You know what I thought of him,
And I know what you thought.
Let us leave the lamentations to the illiterate!
Why should we weep for him? He cried enough for himself!
The national tear-duct from Weeping Water, Nebraska,
Who flooded the whole nation like a one-man Mississippi!
You know what he was:
A Barnum-bunkum Bible-beating bastard!”
13. Which two
poetry terms
appear in
Hornbeck’s
poetic lines?

26. E.K. Hornbeck Returns! “You know what I thought of him,
And I know what you thought.
Let us leave the lamentations to the illiterate!
Why should we weep for him? He cried enough for himself!
The national tear-duct from Weeping Water, Nebraska,
Who flooded the whole nation like a one-man Mississippi!
You know what he was:
A Barnum-bunkum Bible-beating bastard!”
13. Which two
poetry terms
appear in
Hornbeck’s
poetic lines?
Answer: Simile and Alliteration

27. Rachel Brown’s “Ah-Ha” Moment
“Mr. Drummond, I hope I haven’t said anything to offend you. You see, I haven’t really thought very much. I was always afraid of what I might think-so it seemed safer not to think at all. But now I know. A thought is like a child inside our body. It has to be born. If it dies inside you, part of you dies too!”
14. What poetry term appears in Rachel’s lines?

28. Rachel Brown’s “Ah-Ha” Moment
“Mr. Drummond, I hope I haven’t said anything to offend you. You see, I haven’t really thought very much. I was always afraid of what I might think-so it seemed safer not to think at all. But now I know. A thought is like a child inside our body. It has to be born. If it dies inside you, part of you dies too!”
14. What poetry term appears in Rachel’s lines?
Answer: Simile

29. Add up your points
Out of 35 total points!