Poetry Periods
This early American poetry period focused on religion, morality, and survival.
Colonial/Revolutionary Period
This poetic form traditionally contains 14 lines.
Sonnet
“The wind whispered softly through the leaves.”
Identify the figurative language.
Personification
Aristotle wrote this famous text about stories and drama.
Poetics
Morning sunlight glows
Birds awaken sleepy trees
Soft breeze greets the day
Haiku
This literary movement focused on portraying everyday life honestly.
Realism
This Shakespearean feature appears at the end and often gives the final insight.
Couplet
Name the figurative language. “Her voice was like silk.”
Simile
This term means a tragic flaw or serious mistake.
Hamartia
The backpack groaned as I stuffed in one more book.
Personification Poetry
This period often reflected uncertainty, war, and broken traditions.
Modernism
This poetic style has no fixed rhyme or meter pattern.
Free verse
Name the figurative language. "Time is a thief."
Metaphor
This word means the audience feels emotional release through the story.
Catharsis
I walk through the hallway
thinking about nothing
and everything at once
while shoes echo behind me
This poem is what type of poetry?
Free Verse Poetry
This movement valued emotion, beauty, and nature over logic.
Romanticism
DAILY DOUBLE
This type of sonnet is divided into an octave and a sestet.
Petrarchan sonnet
DAILY DOUBLE
Name the figurative language. "I don't trust stairs. They're always up to something."
Pun
This term means a sudden reversal of fortune.
Peripeteia
The icy lemonade sparkled yellow
and tasted sharp on my tongue.
This line appeals most strongly to these two senses.
Sight and Taste
This poetry era often explored identity, justice, and modern social issues.
Contemporary
This form of poetry contains 4 couplets and addresses 5 things.
5 Sense Poetry
Name the figurative language. The pilot was afraid of heights.
Irony
This term means the character realizes the truth too late.
Anagnorisis
There once was a runner named Blake
Who tripped by the edge of the lake
He stood with a grin
Then jumped right back in
And laughed at the splash that he’d make
This poetic form is what type of poem?
Limerick