Poetry Terminology
Figurative Language
Imagery
Diction
Poets
100
the specific words an author chooses
What is diction?
100
In "I Hear America Singing" SINGING is this type of figurative langauge.
What is metaphor?
100
This poem used the sensory image of hearing bells.
What is "Oh Captain! My Captain!"?
100
Whitman chose not only Captain, but also this word to describe Lincoln.
What is father?
100
This poet was self-educated.
Who is Walt Whitman?
200
the primary images or pictures the author uses to convey meaning in a poem
What is imagery?
200
THE SNOW WAS LIKE A BLANKET ON THE EARTH is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is simile.
200
This poem used the sensory image of hearing horrid hooting.
What is "Railway Train"?
200
Hughes uses the words darker brother for this purpose.
What is to show the country as a family but him as an alienated brother/member?
200
This poet was a recluse.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
300
to give human/living qualities to something that is not human/living
What is personification?
300
In "Dreams" LIFE IS A BROKEN-WINGED BIRD is an example of this figurative language.
What is metaphor?
300
This poet used the image of a broken-winged bird in one of the poems we read.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
Whitman chooses words such as: Shoemaker Plough boy Mother for this purpose.
What is to appeal and include the common man in his poetry?
300
This poet was known as the father of Jazz Poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
the attitude or behavior the speaker has toward the subject matter; the tone could be formal, informal, humorous, serious, etc.
What is tone?
400
In the poem "I, Too, Sing America" the phrase AT THE TABLE is a metaphor for this.
What is being equal to others (whites)?
400
In the poem "Dreams" the image of life is a barren field was used to mean this.
What is hopelessness of life without dreams?
400
At the end, Dickinson uses the word docile to describe the train for this reason.
What is the comparison of the loud train to the now silent train?
400
In the five poems we have read, this author or authors were known to write about political and social situations.
Who are Hughes, Whitman, and Dickinson?
500
a group of lines in poetry; in prose, you would call it a paragraph
What is stanza?
500
In "Oh Captain! My Captain!" Whitman describes Lincoln as CAPTAIN, which is a metaphor for this.
What is leader?
500
This imagery was used to emphasize the exhausted but hopeful condition of the United States after the Civil War.
What is Grim and Daring?
500
Dickinson uses supercilious to describe the train in order to convey this tone about the train.
What is haughty, arrogant, superior?
500
This poet did not have a great deal of success with publishing poems, at first.
Who is Walt Whitman?
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