Langston Hughes
Meter
Misc.
Stanzas
Figurative Language
100
February 1, 1902
When was Langston born?
100
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is a meter?
100
a five line poem containing 22 syllables
What is a cinquain?
100
a two line stanza
What is a couplet?
100
A comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
200
Joplin, Missouri
Where was he born?
200
does not have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
Unlike meter poetry....
200
a Japanese poem written in three lines
What is a haiku?
200
a four line stanza
What is quatrain?
200
exaggeration often used for emphasis
What is a hyperbole?
300
Columbia University
What college did he attend?
300
Rhyme
What does meter not have?
300
a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme
What is Shakespearean Sonnet?
300
A six line stanza
What is a sestet?
300
a direct comparison of two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
400
1921
When did he publish his first book?
400
A very conversational that sounds like someone is talking to you
What is a free verse poetry?
400
A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regular in a poem
What is a refrain?
400
A seven line stanza
What is septet?
400
An expression where the literal meaning of the words is the meaning of the expression
What is a idiom?
500
After his birth
When did his parents seperate?
500
Rhyme
What words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and constant sounds?
500
constant sounds repeated at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
500
An eight line stanza
What is octave?
500
Animal or object given life-like qualities
What is personification?
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