Poetry Terms
A term that compares two things WITHOUT using like or as
What is a metaphor?
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of this
What is a simile?
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I Wandered ______ as a Cloud
What is lonely?
The author of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Who is William Wordsworth?
The flower mentioned in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
What is a daffodil?
An exaggeration for effect
What is a hyperbole?
"Cloudless climes" is an example of this
What is alliteration?
Fill in the blank
When my _____ died, I was very Young
What is mother?
The author of "The Chimney Sweeper"
Who is William Blake?
The average age (#) of Chimney Sweepers
What is 4 or 5?
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions
What is personification?
"Ten thousand [daffodils] saw I at a glance//Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" is an example of this
What is personification?
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A _______ Black Thing in the Snow
What is little?
The author of "She Walks in Beauty"
Who is Lord Byron?
The name of the boy who dreamt about the coffins
Who is Tom Dacre?
Language that stimulates the reader's senses
What is imagery?
"Were all of them locked up in coffins of black" and "And he opened the coffins & set them all free" are examples of this
What are contrasting images?
Fill in the blank
______ ______ in Beauty
What is she walks
The nationality of Lord Byron
What is British?
The place where the speaker of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" likes to picture nature
Where is the couch?
A group of poetic lines
What is a stanza?
"Who make up a heaven of our misery" is an example of this
What is an oxymoron
The title of the collection in which "A Little Black Thing in the Snow" is found
What is Songs of Experience?
The author of Songs of Innocence
Who is William Blake?
The thing narrator #2 in "A Little Black Thing in the Snow" compares his clothes to
What is death?