Poetry Definition
What do we call two rhyming lines of poetry?
Couplet
Identify the device being used:
Sally sells seashells by the seashore
Alliteration
Who says "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle..."?
The woman who burns herself in the fire
Who is the speaker and recipient (2 people!) of the quote: "You, who love only words, wit, the grand manner-- why, for all you know, the man may be a savage, or a fool"?
Recipient = Roxane
A line of poetry with five feet of iambs is called...
iambic pentameter
What is a grouped set of lines in a poem set off by indentation?
Stanza
"Smack" and "hiccup" are examples of
Onomatopoeia
Who says "We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal"?
Beatty
Who says: "forgive me for loving you only because you were beautiful"?
Roxane
Who says: "The Phoenix must have been first cousin to man?"
Granger
What is an onomatopoeia?
A word that imitates the sound it describes
Sight rhyme
Who says: "The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us"?
Faber
To whom is Cyrano speaking when he says, "I carry my adornments on my soul. I do not dress up like a popinjay.. no figure of a man, but a soul clothed in shining armor"?
Where is Montag when he "moved toward this special silence that was concerned with all of the world?"
When he gets out of the river and sees Granger and the professors around the fire
List three qualities of a sonnet
- 14 lines
- 8 line problem, 6 line resolution
- volta in 9th line
- Elizabethan/Shakespearean
- iambic pentameter
What kind of rhyme is "worm" and "swarm"?
Slant rhyme
Why does Bradbury compare man to a Phoenix?
Phoenixes die and are reborn from the ashes, just like man makes mistakes and then learns from them
What does Cyrano mean when he says, "Am I to ruin your happiness because I happen to be born with power to say what you-- perhaps-- feel?"
What is the order of syllables in an iamb?
Unstressed then stressed
What is the difference between sight rhyme and slant rhyme?
Sight rhyme looks like it would rhyme but actually doesn't, while slant rhyme kind of sounds like it rhymes but does not rhyme perfectly
What kind of rhyme is "offer" and "proper"?
Slant rhyme
What does "guild of the asbestos-weaver" mean?
A group of people dedicated to protecting things from burning
or
a group of skilled craftsmen who weave fireproof materials
What does "forced to show all, they soon become all show" mean?
When you have to make a big deal about showing how you feel, you start to become just a show and not really expressing your true emotions
Meter is the ___________ of ____________ in a line of poetry
Pattern, syllables