Romantic Poets
This poet wrote “Ode to a Nightingale.”
Who is John Keats?
This term refers to a comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is Simile?
This poet wrote lying down due to illness, yet produced classics like “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
Who is William Wordsworth?
Poems that have no rhyme and no regular meter are called…
What is Free verse?
This country is famous for the haiku form.
What is Japan?
This poem begins with the line “I, too, sing America” and powerfully asserts equality
What is “I, Too” by Langston Hughes?
Author of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
Who is
William Wordsworth
A 14‑line poem with a set rhyme scheme is called a…
What is a Sonnet?
This American poet worked as a nurse during the Civil War and kept notebooks full of observations.
Who is Walt Whitman?
A poem with a strict pattern of 5–7–5 syllables is known as this Japanese form.
What is Haiku?
The epic poem “The Odyssey” comes from this ancient civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
This poem includes the famous refrain “Phenomenal woman, that’s me.”
What is “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou?
Wrote the poem “She Walks in Beauty.”
Who is Lord Byron?
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called…
What is Alliteration?
This poet became famous at 20 for “Ode to a Nightingale” and died at only 25.
Who is John Keats?
The rhythm of a line of poetry is formally known as its…
What is Meter?
The “Rubáiyát” is a collection of quatrains written by a poet from this Middle Eastern region.
What is Persia (Iran)?
This classic poem opens with “Because I could not stop for Death— / He kindly stopped for me.”
What is “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson?
This Romantic poet wrote “Ozymandias,” a sonnet reflecting on the impermanence of power.
Who is
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A poem that tells a story is known as this type.
What is a Narrative poem?
This poet loved bees and often wrote about them — she even kept a beehive.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
This term refers to unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is Blank verse?
This Irish poet wrote “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and won the Nobel Prize
Who is W.B. Yeats?
This poem features the ominous line “And miles to go before I sleep.”
What is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost?
This poet wrote “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” one of the most famous narrative poems of the era.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
This term refers to a pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry.
What is Caesura?
This Harlem Renaissance poet was also a busboy before becoming a literary icon.
Who is Langston Hughes?
A repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song—similar to a chorus—is called a…
The ghazal, a form of romantic and mystical poetry, originated in this language.
What is Arabic?
This poem contains the famous line “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high,” written by a Nobel Prize–winning poet from India.
What is “Gitanjali 35” by Rabindranath Tagore