A syllable pattern that is two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
Anapest or Anapestic
100
This poet won four Pulitzer Prizes between 1923 - 1942.
Robert Frost
100
since i can't go
where i need
to go
then i must go
where the signs point
Choices (Nikki Giovanni)
100
What is the theme of Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken"?
Life is a series of choices.
Choices in life make all the difference.
Don't regret choices you've made.
100
What is the meter of the following line:
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
Iambic pentameter
200
This type of poetry sometimes takes the shape of the poem's subject.
Open form
200
This poet was inspired by the rhythm and sound of music as well as the poetry of Walt Whitman.
Langston Hughes
200
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Nothing Gold Can Stay (Robert Frost)
200
What is the theme of Claude McKay's "America"?
Challenges will make us stronger.
Overall, America is a positive place.
200
Name and define the two different types of rhyme in poetry.
End Rhyme (occurs at the end of multiple lines) and Internal Rhyme (occurs within a single line of poetry)
300
Poetry that is unrhymed and has an unfixed rhythm.
Free verse
300
This poet wrote a collection of poems entitled "Leaves of Grass."
Walt Whitman
300
So will the page be colored that I write?
Being me, it will not be white.
But it will be
A part of you, instructor.
Theme for English B (Langston Hughes)
300
What is the theme of Robinson Jeffer's "Shine, Perishing Republic"?
America is crumbling.
300
What are two major differences between poetry and prose?
Structure (poetry is divided into stanzas, prose into paragraphs) and Delivery (poetry is meant to be read aloud)
400
The overtones associated with a certain word
connotation
400
This poet was a spokesperson for the American laborer.
Carl Sandburg
400
I sadly smiling remember that
the flower fades to make fruit,
the fruit rots to make earth.
Shine, Perishing Republic (Robinson Jeffers)
400
What is the theme of Carl Sandburg's "Chicago"?
There's more than meets the eye.
All bad/evil has a bit of good in it.
400
Which poet is most famous for their use of closed form?
Robert Frost
500
An apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradition
paradox
500
This poet currently teaches at Virginia Tech.
Nikki Giovanni
500
Of railroad trains whizzing along so fast they reach the station before the whistle,
Of pigs so thin the farmer had to tie knots in their tails to keep them from crawling through cracks in their pens.
They Have Yarns (Carl Sandburg)
500
What is the theme of Robert Frost's poem "Birches"?
Many long to return to their childhood.
500
The trees in Robert Frost's "Birches" were bent -- who or what bent them?