Forms of Poetry
Four Temperaments
Figurative Language
Adaptions
Culture and Poets
100
Shakespeare loved them, writing 154 of these in his lifetime.
What is a Sonnet
100
Who developed the theory of 'Four Temperaments And The Forms Of Poetry'
Who is Gregory Orr
100
This a direct comparison between two unlike things, usually using the words like or as.
What is a Simile
100
This 2010 rom-com features Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, and Amanda Bynes, based on the 1850 Hawthorne classic.
What is "Easy A"
100
This 19th-century American poet wrote numerous poems and short stories, including "The Raven," "Lenore," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "Annabel Lee."
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
200
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
200
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
200
This is a figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another
What is a Metaphor
200
This '90s rom-com starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger is based on Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".
What is "10 Things I Hate About You"
200
Lisa Simpson, from The Simpsons, is obsessed with this reclusive American poet who wrote nearly 1,800 poems before her death in 1886.
Who is Emily Dickinson
300
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.
300
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
300
This is an indirect reference to a text, person, place, thing or concept that has historical or cultural significance
What is an Illusion
300
This Netflix series, created and directed by Mike Flanagan, is a modern retelling of this Poe short story.
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher"
300
Noah reads the poem "Spontaneous Me," by Walt Whitman, to Allie in this 2004 movie.
What is "The Notebook"
400
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
400
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
400
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
400
This 1999 teen movie, starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, and Matthew Lillard, is based on George Bernard Shaw's 1915 play, "Pygmalion."
What is "She's All That"
400
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
500
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
500
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"
500
This figurative speech where you refer to something by another name. Instead, you call it by something closely associated
What is a Metonymy
500
Clueless, the 1995 film featuring Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, and Brittany Murphy, is based on this 1815 literary piece.
What is "Emma" by Jane Austen
500
This 2014 Wes Anderson film features Ralph Finneas as a concierge/murder suspect/novice detective who randomly recites poetry throughout the film.
What is "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
