Poets
This poet drew a great deal of inspiration from her authoritarian father in their poetry.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
Un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
This era which began in 1965 and spans to present is characterized by identifying the cause of suffering, using humor to cope with pain, and attempting to make the best of situations.
What is postmodernism?
This author put their children to bed for a nap before cranking up the heat and putting their head in the oven.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
A poet who heavily incorporates nature into their poetry.
Who is Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, or Edgar Allan Poe?
This poet believed in “approachable poetry” and felt anyone who used too complex of ideas was pretentious.
Who is Billy Collins?
A long narrative poem, often written about a hero or heroine.
What is an epic?
This era introduced ideas of human reason transition into an emphasis on individuality and nature.
What is romanticism?
This author turned on their car inside a closed garage and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Who is Anne Sexton?
This movement came in three waves.
What is the feminist movement?
This poet wrote a difficult poem based on his rocky relationship with his wife.
Who is TS Eliot?
A mixture of sharp, harsh, and inharmonious sounds.
What is cacophony?
This era used the idea of stream of consciousness. Our modern take on literary analyzing came to light along with the poem, “The Waste Land”.
What is modernism?
This author fell victim to prostate cancer due to a low amount of screening for African Americans.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This type of literary criticism involves the close reading of the text.
What is New Criticism?
This poet was heavily influenced by jazz and blues music.
Who is Langston Hughes?
When the story starts in the middle of the action.
What is en medias res?
This era used themes such as rejection of social conformity, ejection of tradition, sexual freedom, drugs, and adventure.
What is the beat generation?
This author placed rocks in their pockets and walked off into the river to drown. The flow washed their body away, and their family only discovered their death after three weeks of being missing.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
Frankenstein's real name.
Who is Victor?
This poet became openly bisexual when her husband left for WWI.
Who is Hilda Doolittle?
A term that indicates to the running on of a thought from one line, couplet, stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
What is enjambment?
This era emphasizes intimate and unflattering details about the author in order to confess something to the reader.
What is confessionalism?
This author continued their family’s legacy by ending their life with the same gun that was used by their father and grandfather.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This list of words creates the acronym TP-CAASSTT, used for analyzing poems.
(Name every word that acronym stands for.)
What is Title, Paraphrase, Clever Language, Audience, Attitude, Shifts, Speaker, Title (revisited), and Theme?