Poetry Terms
a collection of lines in a poem
stanza
What happens to a dream deferred, does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Simile
Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks were both born in where?
Kansas
Took place in what city in the USA?
New York City
How many heads does an octopus have?
The pattern that rhymes appear in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Jazz June, Shoot Straight, Lurk Late
alliteration
In the poem "We Real Cool" where are the young men hanging out?
The Pool Hall
Define the the word Rennisance
Re-birth
what is the largest animal alive?
The Blue Whale
this occurs with every new sound a word makes
syllable
an extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
Whitman uses a "captain" to symbolize what political figure?
Electricity, Cars, Jazz, Loosened Laws on Women, Loosened laws on Black Americans
How many bones are in the human body?
206
A group of two lines in a AA BB AA BB poem
Rhyming Couplet
Oh brawling love, o loving hate!
oxymoron
Walt Whitman is the father of what form of poetry?
Free Verse
The Great Depression
Who was the first person to drop out of one direction
Zayne Malik
The ordering stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem, creating a tempo.
Meter
"I heard the singing of the Mississippi"
personification
Gwendolyn Brooks uses one syllable words to imitate the sound of...
jazz
Define Modernism
The blending of fine art and folk art
How many members are there in N'SYNC
can you name them?
5
Justin, Jayce, Joey, Lance, Kris