Imagery
Poem Structure
Poets
Things that start with C
Misc.
100
Olfactory imagery represents this sensation
What is smell?
100
This type of poem is short usually three lines:
Imagine torture,
the worst pain in the whole word
Yeah, that's BLS
What is a haiku?
100
This poet is a transcendentalist who wrote Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry
Who is Walt Whitman?
100
Shakespeare uses this type of stanza at the end of his sonnets
What is a couplet?
100
Our favorite poet is ....
Who is Ms. Diamond?
200
This literary term uses words to represent sounds...
Hear the sledges with the bells -
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This type of stanza has five lines
What is a quintet?
200
This poet suggests reading your poems out loud to a dog or fish
Who is Billy Collins?
200
The example below is this type of literary term:
Ms. Diamond dares to dive deeper into poetry with her diligent students
What is consonance?
200
In Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Whitman uses these animals to convey symbols about light and dark
What are seagulls?
300
This repetitive structure found in poems, such as this one, evokes the auditory sense
is where the Elk River falls
from a rocky and considerable height,
turning pale with trepidation at the lip
(it seemed from where I stood below)
before it is unbuckled from itself
and plummets, shredded, through the air
into the shadows of a frigid pool
What is assonance?
300
This poem has a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA-CDECDE
What is an Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet?
300
Billy Collins had his first writer's workshop with this poet
Who is Marie Howe?
300
Dante Alighieri's famous poem is divided into several of these ______?
What is a canto?
300
This person asks complex questions during small group work
What is the critical thinker?
400
Shakespeare uses ______ imagery in the example below
"This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice…”
(Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare)
What is kinesthetic imagery?
400
The word "older" is considered a _______ foot in poetry
What is a trochaic foot?
400
This poet wrote Wan Chu's Wife in Bed
Who is Richard Jones?
400
This is a pause
or sudden break in a poem
What is a caesura?
400
Write a haiku in jeopardy form
answers may vary
What is a game show?
What is a game of questions?
What is Jeopardy?