Walt Whitman
Poetic Terms
Robert Frost
Music Lyrics
English Poetry
100
He is the Captain in Walt Whitman's poem, "Oh Captain, My Captain".
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Two or more words with the same last sound.
What is rhyme?
100
This famous Frost poem, a neighbor remarks that good fences make this?
What is "good neighbors"?
100
This popular rock band wrote the song, "Fake You Out".
Who is Twenty One Pilots?
100
True ease in writing, according to Alexander Pope, comes from this, not "chance."
What is art?
200
This "great star" drooped in the Western sky in a famous poem dedicated to a late President.
What is the planet Venus?
200
A directly stated comparison.
What is a metaphor?
200
In the poem "Out, Out" the main character is performing this task?
What is "cutting firewood"?
200
It was this time of year in the Simon and Garfunkel song "I am a Rock."
What is winter?
200
These "purblind doomsters" appear in Thomas Hardy's poem Hap.
What is "Crass Casualty" and "Dicing Time"?
300
Where the lilacs bloomed in the poem of the same name.
What is the dooryard?
300
Has no rhyme but has rhythm.
What is blank verse?
300
This woman's voice was added to birdsong in a famous Frost poem.
Who is Eve?
300
In the chorus of the song "Implicit Demand for Proof," the speaker pleaded with a higher power to do this.
What is "rain down and destroy me"?
300
It is what "gives life to thee" in Sonnet Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.
What is Sonnet 18?
400
The name of the bird that "warbled the song of death".
What is the Thrush.
400
The consecutive use of similar phrases or grammatical structures.
What is parallelism?
400
The "something" that "doesn't love a wall" in the poem Mending Wall.
What is nature?
400
He was "peering out of tiny eyes" in the song The Greatest Discovery.
Who is the older brother?
400
The self-described King of Kings and the title of Shelley's famous poem.
Who is Ozymandias?
500
The title of Walt Whitman's collection of poetry.
What is Leaves of Grass?
500
A reference to something the poet thinks everyone already knows.
What is an allusion?
500
The boy in the poem "Out, Out" pleads with his sister not to let the doctor do this?
What is cut off his hand?
500
The name of the young girl that got pregnant in the Bruce Springsteen song, "The River"
Who is Mary?
500
Ben Jonson makes this vow for the sake of his son.
What is "what he loves may never like so much"
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