What's that literary term?
simile
A True Story
Mark Twain
What poem does the lines, “Alabanza. When the war began, from Manhattan to Kabul two constellations of smoke rose and drifted to each other, mingling in icy air?”
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Usually has a 14-line format with a rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Which poet was unable to perform their work during JFK’s inauguration
Robert Frost
Used to emphasize a statement or idea by repeating the same message multiple times.
anaphora
The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
Walt Whitman
What poem does the lines, “The image never fades, the smoke from that skyline stings the eyes of a nation?”
Tower Two
free verse writing
Beat poetry
Who was the youngest poet to read an inaugural poem
Amanda Gorman
A speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, and abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable or responding.
Apostrophe
Hills Like White Elephants
Ernest Hemingway
“Success in Circuit lies, too bright for our infirm Delight, The Truth’s superb surprise.”
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant" by Emily Dickinson
It attempts to persuade a reader to adopt a certain point of view or to take a particular action.
Persuasive writing
Who became the second American inaugural poet after a gap of 30 years
Maya Angelou
a word or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated with
metonym
Defending Walt Whitman
Sherman Alexie
“Why should the world be over-wise, in counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us?”
We Wear the Mask
continuation of a sentence without pauses beyond the end of a line.
Enjambment
Who was the poet that read at Obamas first inaugural poem
Elizabeth Alexander
When the deeper, underlying meanings and emotions of a story are left largely unspoken and up to interpretation by the reader.
Hemingway's Iceberg Theory/ Theory of Omission
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Martin Espada
The girl did not say anything. I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural.”
Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
ABAB rhymes written between 4 and 8 lines
Ballad
Which CCSU Alumni read his poem for Obamas second inauguration
Richard Blanco