Building Blocks
The most common type of rhyme in traditional poetry, and here's an example:
Mary had a little lamb,
It's fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
What is end rhyme?
(or ABCB)
The rhythmic structure of a line of poetry, created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
The author of "The Cask of Amontillado.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
He grew up in a strict Calvinist household in Scotland.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
So much depends
on a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain.....
Who is William Carlos Williams?
A "paragraph" of poetry.
What is a stanza?
ǎ-BOUT, for example, shows this type of poetic foot.
What is an iamb?
The author of The Grapes of Wrath.
Who is John Steinbeck?
He graduated from Harvard with a degree in English and Classical Studies.
Who is E.E. Cummings?
IN A STATION OF THE METRO
The apparition of these faces in the crowd :
Petals on a wet, black bough
Who is Ezra Pound?
Here's an example of this type of rhyme:
They are neither man nor woman—
They are neither brute nor human—
What is slant rhyme?
The meter that Shakespeare usually wrote in.
What is iambic pentameter.
The author of The Violent Bear it Away.
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
A poet as well as a pediatrician.
Who is William Carlos Williams?
If you break faith with us who die,
We shall not rest....
Who is John McCrae?
Also known as half-rhyme, this poetic device is not often used. An example:
As there began a mighty hail,
We headed for the nearest hill,
What is pararhyme?
It uses three metrical feet per line.
What is trimeter?
The author of The Martian Chronicles.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
Three of the "rules" of the Imagist Manifesto.
What is: 1.To use everyday common speech, but to employ always the exact word2. To create “new rhythms” by the use of free verse3. To allow absolute freedom in subject matter4. To “present an image” through the use of particular details5. To produce poetry that is hard and clear, never blurred or indefinite6. To concentrate as much as possible into the fewest words possible?
"I shall be better able to cry my
outcry, playing my part."
Who is Wilfred Owen?
A method of analyzing a poem's meter by identifying stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is scansion?
This line is written in it:
JUST for a HANDful of SILver he LEFT to us,
i.e. four dactyls per line.
What is dactylic tetrameter?
The author of Kidnapped.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
The five steps in Poetry Explication.
What is BFFUO?
(Basic info of poet, Form, Figurative Language, Use of sound, Overall meaning?
Tell them, O guns, that we have heard their call,
That we have sworn, and will not turn aside,
That we will onward till we win or fall,
That we will keep the faith for which they died.
Who is John McCrae?