identify the following poetic elements. the winning team receives a prize!
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Identify the Identify the following Poetic following Poetic
Elements.Elements.The winning team The winning team receives a prize!receives a prize!
““Life is a broken-Life is a broken-winged bird”winged bird”
ANSWER : ANSWER : METAPHORMETAPHOR
WHO wrote the previous line of WHO wrote the previous line of poetry?poetry?
ANSWER: LANGSTON ANSWER: LANGSTON HUGHESHUGHES
““Life is like a box of Life is like a box of chocolates, you never chocolates, you never know what you’re going know what you’re going to get”to get”
ANSWER: SIMILEANSWER: SIMILE
WHO said the previous WHO said the previous simile?simile?
ANSWER: TOM HANKS AS ANSWER: TOM HANKS AS FORREST GUMPFORREST GUMP
““I heard a fly I heard a fly BUZZ when I BUZZ when I died”died”
ANSWER: ONOMATOPOEIA ANSWER: ONOMATOPOEIA
ANSWER: EMILY DICKINSONANSWER: EMILY DICKINSON
WHO wrote the previous line of WHO wrote the previous line of onomatopoeia ? onomatopoeia ?
““That Nature That Nature murmured to herself murmured to herself / To keep herself in / To keep herself in Cheer-”Cheer-”
ANSWER: PERSONIFICATIONANSWER: PERSONIFICATION
WHO wrote the previous WHO wrote the previous example of personification? example of personification?
ANSWER: EMILY DICKINSONANSWER: EMILY DICKINSON
Who wrote “The Who wrote “The Love Song of J. Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ?Alfred Prufrock” ?
ANSWER: T.S. ELIOTANSWER: T.S. ELIOT
What is POETRY?What is POETRY?
ANSWER: POETRY IS A WAY ANSWER: POETRY IS A WAY FOR A PERSON TO TRY TO FOR A PERSON TO TRY TO EXPRESS AN EMOTION IN EXPRESS AN EMOTION IN WORDSWORDS
This poem tells a This poem tells a story similar to a story similar to a folk tail or legend folk tail or legend which often has a which often has a repeated refrain.repeated refrain.
ANSWER: BALLADANSWER: BALLAD
This is an extensive, This is an extensive, serious poem that serious poem that tells the story about tells the story about a heroic figure. a heroic figure. Example: Example: BeowulfBeowulf
ANSWER: EPICANSWER: EPIC
This is a sad, This is a sad, thoughtful poem thoughtful poem about the death of about the death of an individual. This is an individual. This is similar to a Eulogy.similar to a Eulogy.
ANSWER: ELEGYANSWER: ELEGY
This is a Japanese This is a Japanese poem composed of poem composed of three unrhymed three unrhymed lines.lines.
ANSWER: HAIKUANSWER: HAIKU
What are HAIKUS What are HAIKUS often about?often about?
ANSWER:NATUREANSWER:NATURE
““We / Lurk late. We / We / Lurk late. We / Strike straight”Strike straight”
ANSWER: ALLITERATIONANSWER: ALLITERATION
““Your hand is a warm stone I Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words”hold between two words”
ANSWER: METAPHORANSWER: METAPHOR
““She had been solid as a She had been solid as a tree”tree”
ANSWER: SIMILEANSWER: SIMILE
““Let the rain kiss you. / Let the Let the rain kiss you. / Let the rain sing you a lullaby”rain sing you a lullaby”
ANSWER: PERSONIFICATIONANSWER: PERSONIFICATION
““And I kept on running down And I kept on running down the walk / Paved with pebbles the walk / Paved with pebbles of memory big and small / of memory big and small / Without turning to look until I Without turning to look until I was out of the gate”was out of the gate”
ANSWER: IMAGERYANSWER: IMAGERY
““Your spirit’s secret hides like Your spirit’s secret hides like gold / Sunk in a Spanish gold / Sunk in a Spanish galleon”galleon”
ANSWER: ALLITERATION AND ANSWER: ALLITERATION AND SIMILESIMILE
Taylor Swift’s Taylor Swift’s “Lovesong” “Lovesong”
“Romeo save me, I’ve been “Romeo save me, I’ve been waiting so long, I kept waiting waiting so long, I kept waiting for you but you never called” for you but you never called” This is an example of what?This is an example of what?
ANSWER: ALLUSIONANSWER: ALLUSION
50 Cent said50 Cent said“I love you like a fat kid loves “I love you like a fat kid loves cake”cake”
ANSWER : SIMILEANSWER : SIMILE
This element stands for or This element stands for or represents something else.represents something else.
ANSWER: SYMBOLANSWER: SYMBOL
BONUS:BONUS:*3 POINTS**3 POINTS*
CREATE A LINE OF CREATE A LINE OF ALLITERATION WITH AT LEAST ALLITERATION WITH AT LEAST 7 REPEATING CONSONAT 7 REPEATING CONSONAT SOUNDS.SOUNDS.