Forms of Poetry
Shakespeare loved them, writing 154 of these in his lifetime.
What is a Sonnet
Who developed the theory of 'Four Temperaments And The Forms Of Poetry'
Who is Gregory Orr
This a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually using the words like or as.
What is a Similie
A common rhythmic pattern used in poetry. It consists of a line made up of five metrical feet.
What is Iambic Pentameter
Rupi Kaur wrote this collection in 2017. It explores themes of love, loss, trauma, healing, and self-discovery through the metaphor of a flower's life cycle. The book is divided into five chapters—"Wilting," "Falling," "Rooting," "Rising," and "Blooming"—and is illustrated by the author.
What is The Sun and Her Flowers
This is a short poem that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings. Historically, it was intended to be sung and accompany musical instrumentation.
What is a Lyric Poem
This temperament expresses itself in a pattern-making in a profound sense.
This temperament can manifest itself in open or closed forms.
What is Structure
This is a figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another
What is a Metaphor
This meter is a stressed syllable followed by one or two unstressed syllables
What is a Falling Meter
This person wrote, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
A poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza. The last line of this poem is often the same as the first.
What is a Pantoum.
This temperament is a representation of an action. It brings dramatic unity by providing a beginning, middle and end. Also by providing conflict and resolution.
What is Story
This is an indirect reference to a text, person, place, thing or concept that has historical or cultural significance
What is an Illusion
This meter is one or two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one
What is a Rising Meter
Lisa Simpson, from The Simspons, was a big fan of this 19th century poet
Who is Emily Dickinson
A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lines form the final couplet in the quatrain.
The most popular poem in this form is "Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night."
What is a Villanelle
This is the extensive, limitless flow of image to image or thought to thought, operating as a dynamic stream of association that moves beyond the confines of the concrete and helps us order the confusion of life into meaningful art.
What is Imagination
Type of figurative language that uses one part to refer to the whole, or the whole to refer to the part
What is a Synecdoche
Verse whose meter is determined by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet. From line to line, the number of stresses (accents) may vary, but the total number of syllables within each line is fixed. The majority of English poems from the Renaissance to the 19th century are written according to this metrical system.
What is Accentual-syllabic verse
This 1989 film sees an English teacher (played by the late Robin Williams) use the likes of Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman (and others) to inspire his students.
What is Dead Poets Society
This was originally accompanied by music and dance, and later reserved by the Romantic poets to convey their strongest sentiments. It is a formal address to an event, a person, or a thing not present.
What is an Ode
This manifests itself in the individual qualities of syllables (pitch, duration, stress), in syntax (word order or sentence structure) and in assorted sound effects.
In poetry, it is irrational; it works directly on the emotions, regardless of the purported content of the language.
What is "Music"
This figurative speech where you refer to something by another name. Instead, you call it by something closely associated
What is a Metonymy
Poetry whose meter is determined by the total number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses.
What is Syllabic verse
Tupac Shakur and this poet meet on the set of Poetic Justice. This poet inspired Shakur to the point that a song, and later and album, is referenced/based on her poem, Still I Rise.
Who is Maya Angelou