The repetition of initial consonant sounds such as: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers."
What is alliteration?
100
Refers to the poet or authors particular choice of words.
What is diction?
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
100
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough" (Pound).
A student looking at words like "wet" and "black" would be looking at examples of this_____.
What are details?
100
Dan McGrew, the story of a fatal fight in a Yukon saloon, is an example of this type of poem.
What is a narrative poem?
200
Using words that imitate the sound they are associated with. For example, words like "bang" and "ooze."
What is onomatopoeia
200
Refers to the poet or authors word order, use of grammatical structures (i.e. sentences), use of grammar for pacing and meaning.
What is syntax?
200
A form of poetry that tells a story.
What is narrative poetry?
200
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough" (Pound).
The poem consists of two of these sensory expressions known as _____(es). Putting two of these contrasting elements together for meaning is called __________.
What are "images" and "juxtaposition?"
200
Who ends up with the stranger's poke of gold at the end of "Dan McGrew"?
Who is the Lady Lou?
300
The use of verbal expressions to evoke the senses.
What is imagery?
300
The word facts and specific observations of a poem. Often the most concrete elements of the poem that give us specific who, what, when, where, why, and how information.
What are details?
300
A 14 line poem.
What is a sonnet?
300
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough."
The comparison between the faces in the crowd and the petals on the bough are an example of this element of figurative language?
What is metaphor?
300
The most common-place sentence type in Service's "Call of the Wild" poem is?
What is interrogative?
400
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines.
What is rhyme scheme?
400
The perspective of a narrator or speaker. The vantage point or the perception of who or whomever is relating the poem or story.
What is point of view?
400
Poetry that does not follow specific styles, rules, or formats.
What is free verse?
400
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough."
If a student were to scrutinize the poem's grammar, discovering that it consisted of one sentence divided by a semi-colon into two distinct parts, and found it had at least one noun described by two separated adjectives. That student would be analyzing this_____
What is syntax?
400
In the poem, the Wild "calling you" is an example of this literary technique.
What is personification?
500
A rhyme between words in the same line.
What is internal rhyme.
500
A comparison not using like or as.
What is metaphor?
500
An object, thing, or figure in literature that represents an idea or ideas.
What is a symbol?
500
A student analyzing diction would likely notice the word "apparition." What are at least two meanings of that particular word?
Answers may vary but will include the following:
1) A ghostly or ghost-like presence.
2) A sudden appearance of something.
3) A sudden realization or recognition.
4) A thing between life and death.
5) An unusual or unexpected sight.
6) The act of becoming visible.
500
Two rhyming words "aquiver" and "river" at the ends of consecutive lines in "The Call of the Wild," are examples of this technique.