Literary Terms
Authors
Forms
Terms & Poems 2
Name that Poem
100
This device has an actor speaking their thoughts out loud, while other actors are present on stage.
What is an aside?
100
This person wrote Sonnet 130.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
This form praises and laments someone who has passed away.
What is an elegy?
100
This is a smaller story within a larger story.
What is a frame story or frame narrative?
100
This poem praises a young athlete who died.
What is "To An Athlete Dying Young"
200
This device is designed to create a harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.
What is dissonance?
200
This Canadian author wrote "The Uninvited."
Who is Dorothy Livesay?
200
The ninth line is the volta in this form of poetry.
What is an Italian sonnet?
200
This type of poetry is designed to teach or instruct.
What is didactic poetry?
200
This poem seems to say that Shakespeare's girlfriend is unbecoming.
What is sonnet 130?
300
This is a story told using a classical figure, over a large distance and time.
What is an epic tale?
300
This author wrote a famous poem while a teenager.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
300
The purest form of this poetry tells a story while alternating iambic trimeter and iambic tetrameter.
What is a ballad?
300
This is a short verse or motto at the beginning of a novel or poem.
What is an epigram?
300
This poem was spoken entirely by a control freak.
What is My Last Duchess?
400
This is the act of addressing an abstract trait or personified object.
What is apostrophe?
400
This person wrote several holy sonnets, of which Death Be Not Proud is one.
Who is John Donne.
400
This poem has one person speaking, and directly to the audience.
What is a dramatic monologue?
400
This poem speaks of the intrusive presence of a former boyfriend/girlfriend.
What is The Uninvited.
400
In this poem, death is "put in his place."
What is Death Be Not Proud?
500
This device combines sharp, harsh, or unpleasant sounds.
What is cacophony?
500
This poet was often quoted by Robin Williams in "The Dead Poet's Society," and, he also wrote about an elfin beauty.
Who is John Keats ?
500
This is the form of "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night."
What is a villanelle?
500
Grouping words together to produce an easy and pleasing flow of sound.
What is euphony?
500
In this poem, a shepherd makes his Love many promises.
What is The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
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