Poetic Device
This is where the consonant sound at the beginning of a word is repeated creating a rhythmic effect.
Alliteration
"Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun."
Funeral Blues
Unstressed followed by stressed syllable
Iambic
What is metrophobia?
Fear of poetry
It has 14 lines. It is likely a....
Sonnet
The opposite of tone.
Mood
"Personally, I think it is overdone."
Consumer Report
A stressed followed by an unstressed syllable
Trochaic
True or false
German poet Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann spent over 17 years writing 130 poems entirely without using the letter "R."
True - He argued with someone whose name began with R.
Sonnets were typically about this theme.
Love
Distinguish a simile from a metaphor.
A simile uses like or as; a metaphor does not.
"a shaft of light suddenly descended"
Did I miss anything?
The lines of the poem are all 10 syllables and it is iambic. This is called iambic ____________?
Pentameter
What is metromania
A compulsive desire to write poetry
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 suggests a comparison between a person's beauty and what?
A summer's day (season of summer)
When two line end word rhyme.
Couplet
"Don't deal in lies"
If
Where is the stress in the following word?
Understanding
un-der-STAND-ing
(There is a secondary stress on un but it is lighter)
What would this poem be famous for?
"Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last sabbath day of 1879
Which will be remember'd for a very long time."
Worst poem in history
Last two lines of the poem that signal a turn or shift.
Volta
The word stanza has a special meaning. What is it?
Room
"one by one"
American Cheese
Say this word correctly and identify the stress:
Discombobulate
dis-com-BOB-u-late
What is the shortest poem ever?
2 words - Me, We - Ali
Iambic pentameter