Poetry vocabulary
Robert Frost
Speech Analysis Vocabulary
Maya Angelou
Words the teacher uses ALL THE TIME!
100
A collection of lines that in Danish is known as "strofe".
What is a stanza?
100
The name of the first poem you read by Robert Frost.
What is "The Road not Taken"?
100
The word for the person giving the speech
What is "writer"?
100
The year of Maya Angelou's death
What is 2014?
100
The word written first thing on the whiteboard or blackboard at the beginning of EVERY lesson
What is "agenda"?
200
The word for the atmosphere created in the poem.
What is "mood"?
200
The country to which Robert Frost moved with his Family in order to pursue his writing.
What is England?
200
The word used to describe the intended audience of the speech
What is "the reader"?
200
The president who asked Maya Angelou to read out loud a poem at his presidential inauguration
Who is Bill Clinton?
200
The phrase used by the teacher when she wants you to base your analysis on quotes from the text
What is "close to the text"?
300
The person who "tells the poem".
Who is the speaker?
300
The word that concludes/finishes this famous line from one of Frost's most famous poems: "Two roads diverged in a yellow X"
What is "wood"?
300
The word used to describe what the speech is actually about
What is "the topic"?
300
The poem Michelle Obama refers to during her eulogy for Maya Angelou
What is "Phenomenal Woman"?
300
The thing we need to practice in order to teach you more words
What is "vocabulary"?
400
The word used to describe the use of symbols and metaphors.
What is "imagery"?
400
The president who asked Robert Frost to recite a poem at his presidential inauguration
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
The appeal form used when the speaker wants to persuade the audience by referring to his or her credibility
What is "ethos"?
400
The word that finishes this famous line from the poem "Still I Rise": "I am the dream and hope of the X"
What is "slave"?
400
The thing you practice when you read out loud to each other
What is "pronunciation"?
500
The word used to describe the pattern in the rhymes of the poem.
What is "rhyme scheme"?
500
The thing we make ourselves according to Robert Frost's famous poem "Revelation"
What is "a place apart"?
500
The appeal form used when the speaker wants to persuade his or her audience by referring to numbers and statistics
What is "logos"?
500
Maya Angelou's actual first name
What is Marguerite?
500
Another word for "assignment" that your teacher frequently uses in handouts
What is "task"?
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