This poet was the Poet Laureate of the United States twice, and Ms. Rice recently saw him at a poetry reading, when he signed her copy of "Aimless Love."
Who is Billy Collins?
100
This poem has three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
This describes two words who have different beginning consonant sounds but otherwise sound the same.
What is rhyme?
100
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide.
What is "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins?
100
A set of four lines of poetry.
What is a quatrain?
200
This poet wrote over 150 sonnets, in addition to writing plays such as "Romeo and Juliet" and "Macbeth."
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
This poem has five lines with a rhyme scheme AABBA.
What is a limerick?
200
This devices describes the repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
200
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
What is "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson?
200
A line of a poem, otherwise known as this.
What is verse?
300
This poet was a recluse who lived with her parents her entire life; after her death, her sister discovered hundreds of unpublished poems.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
300
This type of poem is written to honor or celebrate a person or an object. It is often titled "___ to Ms. Rice," for example.
What is an ode?
300
This is a particular type of meter that mimics the sound of the human heart: duh-DUH, duh-DUH, duh-DUH, duh-DUH, duh-DUH.
What is iambic pentameter?
300
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
What is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost?
300
He is the author of several epic poems, including The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
400
This poet wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "The Road Less Traveled," and "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
Who is Robert Frost?
400
This poem has fourteen lines (three quatrains and one couplet) with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
What is a sonnet?
400
This type of device makes a reference to another work of literature or poetry, or a historical or mythical event.
What is allusion?
400
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
What is "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver?"
400
He is one of the most famous Romantic poets, who died at the age of 25.
Who is John Keats?
500
This poet wrote "The Chimney Sweep," a poem about the poor conditions of chimney sweepers during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is William Blake?
500
This type of poem has no set meter or rhyme scheme. It does not need to have a particular number of lines.
What is free verse?
500
This device describes similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words, such as "So leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief."
What is assonance?
500
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
What is "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare?
500
He is one of the most famous American poets and author of "Leaves of Grass," an anthology of poems.