Identify the poetry type
Poems that are 14 lines long, have a regular rhyme scheme and a strict metrical construction
What are Sonnets?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
A comparison of two things in an interesting way using the word "like" or "as"
E.g., she is like a rose
What is a simile?
“Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
William Shakespeare
A form of narrative verse that can be either poetic or musical
What are Ballads?
4-line rhyming stanza
What is a quatrain?
Repetition of a consonant sound
E.g., she sells seashells by the seashore
What is alliteration?
“I heard a Fly buzz – when I died”
Emily Dickinson
Poems that focus on one particular person, event, inanimate object or abstraction
Often directly address this person/event/object/abstraction
Typically celebrate and exalt the subject
What are Odes?
The end of the line corresponds with the end of the sentence OR the end of an independent clause
What are end-stopped lines?
Attribution of human characteristics to something non-human
E.g., the leaves waved in the windWhat is a personification?
“Ode to a Nightingale”
John Keats
A poem that reflects upon death or loss
What is an elegy?
Lines that do not make syntactic sense in isolation
What are run-on lines pr enjambment?
Repetition of words at the beginnings of clauses
E.g., so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..."
What is anaphora?
"Mirror" & "Tulips"
Sylvia Plath
The two main kinds that poetry can be divided into
What are Epic and Lyric?
Poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form
What is free verse?
A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true but helps explain an idea or make a comparison
States that one thing is another thing
E.g., she is a rose
What is a metaphor?
“Did I Miss Anything?”
Tom Wayman