A poem's voice; it could be the poet, someone else, an animal, or a thing.
What is speaker?
100
Author of "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
Who is Lord Alfred Tennyson?
100
This type of literature is written to be performed by actors in front of an audience.
What is drama?
100
The focus of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is not to place blame, but rather to do this for the brave men who did not question the authority of their leaders.
What is honor?
100
This word or words modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb and answers the questions how? to what extent? when? where?
What is an adverb?
200
Repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
200
Poet who wrote "The Black Snake," a poem about a snake that has been struck by a car and is lying in the road.
Who is Mary Oliver?
200
This regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables was Shakespeare's meter of choice in his writing.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
In "The Charge of the Light Brigade," this poetic device is used with "six hundred," "half a league," and "cannon" to emphasize the loss of life and also create the poem's driving rhythm.
What is repetition?
200
This word or words modify a noun or pronoun and answers the questions what kind? which one? how many? whose?
What is an adjective?
300
Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
300
A poem by Theodore Roethke about a speaker who provides shelter, food, and water to a creature, showing his compassion for the vulnerable and value for all life.
What is "The Meadow Mouse"?
300
This is when the audience knows something that a character does not in a drama.
What is dramatic irony?
300
In "The Black Snake," the speaker uses this poetic device when describing the snake as "looped and useless as an old bicycle tire."
What is a simile?
300
This punctuation mark is used with an s to form the possessive of singular words and plurals that don’t end in s, forms the possessive of plural words that end in s, is used to form the possessive of indefinite pronouns but not personal pronouns, and is used in contractions in place of the missing letter or letters.
What is an apostrophe?
400
Poetry with no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement.
What is free verse?
400
Wrote the poem "Purchase."
Who is Naomi Long Madgett?
400
In a drama, these are the spoken words that are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage.
What is an aside?
400
This traditionally untitled, 17-syllable, unrhymed poem most often focuses on an observation of nature.
What is a haiku?
400
Used in contractions in place of the missing letter or letters, this punctuation mark can also be used in poems to shorten words which eliminates syllables to maintain meter and rhythm.
What is apostrophe?
500
Poetry that usually has one or more characters who speak to others, themselves, or the reader.
What is dramatic poetry?
500
Alma Luz Villanueva wrote this poem about looking back on herself as a child.
What is "I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid"?
500
This is a serious play in which the main character comes to an unhappy end. Romeo and Juliet is an example of this type of play.
What is a tragedy?
500
The speaker in "Purchase" includes words like "smell," "aroma," and "scent" to emphasize the new clothes. This appeal to the sense of smell adds this poetic device to the poem.
What is imagery?
500
A poem that uses more adjectives than adverbs is more focused on this part of speech than verbs, adverbs, or other adjectives.