A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people of events or for abstract ideas or qualities.
What is an allegory?
100
Latin for the art of poetry, or also known as a poem written by Archibald Macleish.
What is "Ars Poetica"?
100
According to our reading, nearly all poems have one of these; a section of daunting complexity or baffling simplicity from which most readers of poetry look away.
What is the vortex or nub, crux, or node?
100
Mathilde's first complaint after being invited to the dance.
What is her lack of a dress?
100
In the Beginner's guide to poetry, the poet does this when referring to Bob Dylan.
What is an allusion?
200
a brief story told to illustrate a point
What is an anecdote?
200
The boy who died in Grace Paley's short story about a tragic day on a subway platform.
Who is Samuel?
200
These two terms fill in the following blanks: "We distinguish between the ____ and ____, that is, between apparent content and real content."
What is the overt and covert?
200
This was Mathilde's second complaint.
What is her need of jewelry?
200
DAILLLLLLLLY DOUBLE! When one says, "One should eat to live, not live to eat," this is occuring.
What is antimetabole?
300
This is an attribution of human characteristics to an animal or inaminate object.
What is anthropomorphism?
300
The moment that you couldn’t tell when the sparrows clearly flew instead of fell.
What is the line between prose and poetry?
300
Unlike meaning, which is something inside the work, this is something we perceive in the work, something is always shifting.
What is significance?
300
Before buying the necklace, the money was going to go towards this.
What is a rifle?
300
Billy Collins writes in this form as he attempts to teach students how to best approach poetry.
What is didactic?
400
DAILLLLLLY DOUBLE! ...calling out to an imaginary dead or absent person or to a place or thing.
What is an apostrophe?
400
This man's heart broke loose on the wind after meeting poetry.
Who is Pablo Neruda?
400
This term perpetuated by high school English teachers has unpleasant and inaccurate connotations. It suggests, "a sort of willful subterfuge on the part ofthe author, a dleiberate attempt to make his or her work difficult to understand or to exclude the reader."
What is the myth of hidden meaning?
400
These are the three ways Madame Loissel is trying to move up in the world.
What is ....
400
Similes and Metaphors use this type of language. It means the opposite of "literal"
What is the figurative?
500
an inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence.
What is anstrophe?
500
The poet who asks you to take a poem and press your ear against its hive.
Who is Billy Collins?
500
These are three reasons, out of an ocean of reasons, that close reading is an important skill.
What is ??????
500
This is the moral of "The Necklace"
What is ????
500
Soap Operas and Drama Queens do this all the time for effect