Authors
This is the author of "A Hillside Thaw."
Who is Robert Frost?
This is rhyme that occurs at the ends of two or more lines of poetry.
What is end rhyme?
This poem compares bad weather to bad behavior.
What is "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind"?
This line is an example of _____.
"Bobbing on the breeze blown waves."
("The Way of the Water-Hyacinth," line 1)
What is alliteration? (or) What is assonance?
This is giving human characteristics to something that is not human.
What is personification?
This is the author of "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind."
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
This poem includes an extended metaphor comparing the melting snow to lizards.
What is "A Hillside Thaw"?
This line is an example of _____.
"In moving slow he has no Peer"
("The Sloth," line 1)
What is assonance? (or) What is alliteration?
This is parallelism in which the word order of two phrases or clauses is similar within one line or in more than one line.
What is grammatical parallelism?
This is the author of "Symbols."
Who is Christina Rossetti?
This is consonant sounds that are repeated in words that are in the same line of poetry or in nearby lines.
What is consonance?
This poem is told from the perspective of a girl during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
What is "Out of the Dust"?
This line is an example of _____.
"The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf."
("Simile: Willow and Gingko," line 9)
What is simile?
What is free verse?
This is the author of "Out of the Dust."
Who is Karen Hesse?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are either in the same line of poetry or in nearby lines.
What is assonance?
In this poem, man's judgement of nature's failure is rebuked in comparison to God's mercy toward man.
What is "Symbols"?
This line is an example of _____.
"The sun's a wizard / . . . the moon's a witch"
("A Hillside Thaw," lines 18-19)
What is metaphor?
This is a pair of rhymed lines.
What is a couplet?
This is the author of "The Sloth."
Who is Theodore Roethke?
This is comparison(s) that continue through several sentences or paragraphs, or through an entire story or peom.
What is extended metaphor?
This poem personifies a plant as a female boxer.
What is "The Way of the Water-Hyacinth"?
This line is an example of _____.
"After seventy days
of wind and sun,
of wind and clouds,
of wind and sand,"
("Out of the Dust," lines 1-4)
What is grammatical parallelism?
This is a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause indicated by punctuation.
What is an end-stopped line?