Poets
Sounds of Words
Meaning of Words
Poems
Meter Monsters
100
Wrote over 1800 poems
Who is Emily Dickinson
100
repetition of initial sounds
What is alliteration?
100
Comparison of two things
What is a metaphor?
100
Uses a paradox as its title.
What is "Much Madness is Divinest Sense"?
100
stressed/unstressed
What is trochaic?
200
Harlem Rennaissance Writer
Who is Langston Hughes
200
repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
200
When the opposite occurs of what is expected.
What is irony?
200
Explores the poet's struggle with a double ethnicity.
What is "Cross"?
200
unstressed/stressed
What is iambic?
300
Often wore white
Who is Emily Dickinson
300
words that mimic sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Addressing something nonhuman or dead as if alive or present.
What is apostrophe?
300
Poem demonstrates the poet's longing to be recognized as an equal citizen.
What is "I, Too, Sing America"?
300
unstressed/unstressed/stressed
What is anapestic?
400
Experimented with punctuation and the visual arrangement of words
Who is E. E. Cummings?
400
Words that are harsh sounding.
What is cacophony?
400
A statement that contradicts itself.
What is a paradox?
400
"Spring is like a ____________ hand"
What is perhaps?
400
A line of poetry that would contain 6 iambs would be written in iambic ________________
What is hexameter?
500
A Modernist poet
Made many symbolic references to the "eye" in his/her poems
500
repetition of consonant sounds
What is consonance?
500
Using the NAME of something to represent its entirety.
What is metonymy?
500
Speaks of "eddiandbill" who come "running from marbles and piracies".
What is "In Just--"?
500
The following line is written in what kind of foot and meter? When in ROME do as THE Romans DO
What is anapestic trimeter?
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