Poetry Flashcards
Any type of writing that uses words for their sound and rhythm as well as their meaning. Sometimes it rhymes and sometimes it doesn’t
Poetry
Express ideas in clear, direct, and simple language
Prose
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as
Metaphor
Comparing two things using like or as
Simile
When every word in a phrase or sentence begins with a phrase or sound
Alliteration
Words that sound like their meaning
Onomatopoeia
Exaggerated
Hyperbole
When you take something that is not human and give it human traits
Personification
Patterns of rhyme and structure in a poem
Rhyme scheme
A poem without rhyming
Free verse
Pairs of rhyming lines
Couplet
Wrote “The Raven” and “Annabelle Lee”. Wrote Dark poems often about death. Father of the detective story
Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote “What If”, “Clarence”, “Sick”, and “The Giving Tree”. Wrote nonsense poems. Was a songwriter, illustrator, and children’s author.
Shel Silverstein
Wrote “The Crocodile” and “Jabberwocky”. Wrote nonsense poems. Wrote Alice in Wonderland.
Lewis Carroll
Wrote “I Hear America Singing”, “O’Captain, My Captain”, and “Runaway Slave”. Wrote Free Verse poems. Father of free verse
What Whitman
