Quotations/Themes
Though the night is damp, the firefly ventures out and slowly lights his lamp
courage
but sweeter was the love that gave those flowers to one unknown
Toru Dutt
In the poem "Sympathy", what animal is used as a symbol by Dunbar?
a caged bird
According to the poet of Remembered Music, from whom did music originate?
angles
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass
Alliteration
I want the shock of going silently along my dark street, feeling that I am tapped upon the shoulder, turning about, and seeing the face of adventure
the unknown
for this is love and nothing else is love
Robert Frost
Who is known as the master of haiku?
Matsuo Basho
What type of meter is this?
Shall I - compare- thee to- a sum- mer's day
iambic pentameter
We, who are parts of Adam, heard with him
allusion
I'm just kidding
The poetry of earth is never dead
John Keats
What sonnet form was mastered by Shakespeare?
What uses characters of one language to represent the sounds of another language?
transliteration
be strong, o paddle be brave canoe
apostrophe
A fanged snake my heart devours
regret
Music uplifts the soul to realms above
Rumi
Which type of rhyme occurs when words look as if they should rhyme but don't?
eye rhyme
___________ verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Blank
and time to his command bids us bow
personification
like a gentle, soothing hand upon the earth a quiet lies
peace
love is not love which alters when it alteration finds
Shakespeare
Who is the poet that perfect the Italian sonnet?
Petrarch
In her poem Emily Dickenson employs ________ to develop her comparison of summer and the passage of time.
extended metaphor
What types of poems are the following:
An Ancient Battlefield
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
The Unforeseen
To a Waterfowl
An Ancient Battlefield- haiku
On the Grasshopper and Cricket - Italian sonnet
The Unforeseen- free verse
To a Waterfowl- ode