She wrote, "I would not paint-- a picture-- / I'd rather be the One / Its bright impossibility / To dwell-- delicious-- on--"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
100
It contains the lines, "There she weaves by night and day / A magic web with colors gay. / She has heard a whisper say, / A curse is on her if she stay / To look down to Camelot."
What is "The Lady of Shalott?"
100
A two-syllable foot in which the second syllable is stressed.
What is an iamb?
100
The term for the shift in tone or logic in the middle of a sonnet.
What is "volta"?
100
A flowering of African American culture in the 1930s, in which Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen participated.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
He wrote the poem containing the lines, "We have lingered in the chambers of the sea / By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown / Till human voices wake up, and we drown."
Who is T. S. Eliot?
200
It contains the lines, "So will my page be colored that I write? / Being me, it will not be white."
What is "Theme for English B"?
200
A fourteen line poem with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
200
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry.
What is a caesura?
200
Sidney's "Astrophil and Stella" is an example of this type of romance, in which the speaker is so hopelessly besmitten by an unattainable object that he wishes to die.
What is courtly love?
300
She wrote, "Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, / May be refined, and join th'angelic train."
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
300
It contains the lines, "Last evening we went dancing and I broke your leg. / Forgive me. I was clumsy and / I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor!"
What is "Variations on a Theme By William Carlos Williams?"
300
A two-syllable foot in which the first syllable is stressed and the second is unstressed.
What is a trochee?
300
A form of poetry in which no rules of rhyme, meter, or line length are followed.
What is free verse?
300
A post-WWII movement in art and culture that celebrates irony, playfulness, and uncertainty.
What is postmodernism?
400
He wrote, "This is the paradise of emptiness, I said, / and journeyed into faithless terra incognita, / the muscles of his stomach on display / when he wipes his face with his shirt."
Who is Reginald Shepherd?
400
It contains the lines, "And as thus to variety inclined, / So in all humors sportively I range: / My muse is rightly of the English strain, / That cannot long one fashion entertain."
What is "To the Reader of these Sonnets" from "Idea"?
400
An imperfect rhyme, in which the words share either assonance or consonance.
What is slant rhyme?
400
A rare two syllable foot in which both syllables are accented.
What is a spondee?
400
A philosophy emphasizing rights and equality for wealthy white men that became popular in the 18th C.
What is liberalism?
500
He wrote, "if sometimes in its box of / sky lavender and cornerless,the / moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy"
Who is e. e. cummings?
500
It contains the lines, "how choose / Between this Africa and the English tongue I love? / Betray them both, or give back what they give? / How can I face such slaughter and be cool? / How can I turn from Africa and live?
What is "A Far Cry From Africa"?
500
A form of meter in which only stressed syllables are counted; it is characteristic of rap music and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
What is accentual verse?
500
A foot with two unstressed syllables in a poem whose meter is usually iambic or trochaic.
What is a pyrrhic substitution?
500
The scattering and dispersal of people from their homeland; for example, the movements caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade.