Authors
Often wrote about their dead wife, Virginia.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
What is an end rhyme?
Words that imitate the sound they are naming
What is onomatopoeia?
exaggeration often used for emphasis
What is hyperbole?
a group of words together on one line of a poem
What is a line?
A prominent writer in Harlem who wrote poetry that sounds like jazz music
Who is Langston Hughes?
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
What is an internal rhyme?
A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.
What is refrain/repetition?
an animal given human-like qualities of an object given life-like qualities
What is personification?
a group of lines arranged together
What is a stanza
A poet who often focused on nature and imagery in his poems.
Who is Robert Frost?
When words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH
What is a near/slant rhyme?
Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
What is alliteration?
When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else.
What is symbolism?
the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that create rhythm
What is meter?
A well-respected poet, but a terrible farmer.
Who is Robert Frost?
a pattern of rhyme within a poem(usually end rhyme, but not always)
What is a rhyme scheme?
Repeated consonant sounds anywhere in words
What is consonance?
What is imagery?
the appearance of the words on the page
What is form?
This author's most famous poem only made him $14.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
poetry that does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is free verse poetry?
Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
What is assonance?
A reference to something famous.
What is an allusion?
A two line stanza
What is a couplet?