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mr. k writing 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A literary or linguistic technique that produces a specific effect, mainly a figure of speech, narrative style, or plot mechanism. | literary device |
| The components of a literary piece: character, setting, plot, theme, and ending/resolution- in other words it's the name for the parts of a story. | literary element |
| Which poetry tool? "Whose woods these are I think I know. "His house is in the village though." Focus on "whose woods these" and "his house". | consonance |
| "Lake" and "fake" demonstrate RHYME; "lake" and "fate" show____. "The bows glided down, and the coast." Blackened with birds took a last look." "bows, down"... "took, look." | assonance |
| "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" - we use these daily in language. From a poem: "His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm crested the world." Your arm can't crest the entire world! | hyperbole |
| "The cold, clammy hands grasped my neck." "The bloody watchman told a tale of trouble and torture." What poetry device is being used? If you over did it you could create a tounge twister. | alliteration |
| "Only the champion daisy trees were serene. After all, they were part of a rain forest so they ignored the men and continued to rock the diamondbacks that slept in their arms. It took the river to persuade them that indeed the world was altered." | personification |
| Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using _____ language. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. | figurative language |
| "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds / And the wild water lapping on the crag." | onomatopoeia |
| "Mending Wall, like an old-stone savage armed. "Stars, like some snow-white/ Minerva's snow-white marble eyes." What tool does Robert Frost use here? | simile |
| "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date." What literary device? | metaphor |
| ___ ___ is a regular pattern, one that is consistent throughout the the poem. "There once was a big brown cat - A -That liked to eat a lot of mice -B - He got all round and fat -A -Because they tasted so nice -B. | rhyme scheme |
| In poetry, verses that are organized in a unit are called _____. | stanza |
| ______ is a single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose which uses grammatical units like sentences and paragraphs). | verse |
| There once was a man from Peru, Who dreamed of eating his shoe,He awoke with a fright,In the middle of the night,And found that his dream had come true! What type of poem is this? (*notice the number of lines) | limerick |
| 14 line poems with strict rhyme schemes. | sonnet |
| Line 1: If mu- / -sic be / the food / of love, / play on. Line 2: Is this / a dag- / -ger I / see be- / fore me? This was Shakespear's style of writing verse. | iambic pentameter |
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