Types of Poetry
Elements of Poetry
Figurative Language
Poetry Strategies
WILD Cards
100
This type of poetry tells a story in verse
What is narrative poetry or the ballad?
100
This is the emotion the reader infers while reading the poem.
What is mood?
100
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
In this strategy the reader uses the five senses to understand the details used by a poet. These are the "word pictures" created by the poet.
What is imagery?
100
What is an example of a paradox in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "We Wear the Mask"?
What is 1) the poem never mentions racial prejudice, even though the poem's speaker is actually discussing it (masking the real issue) or 2) the poem discusses masking, even though it hides some of the real issues it's talking about?
200
This type of poetry is highly musical verse that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings.
What is lyric poetry?
200
This is the perspective from which the poem is written. You do not say this is necessarily the author speaking in the poem, you call this person by another name.
What is the speaker?
200
Read the ex ample below and tell which type of figurative language it is. Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
What is metaphor?
200
When writing a poetry analysis what are the three things you need to ensure you have?
What is a clear thesis, textual evidence and thoughts (analysis) about the text?
200
What events inspired the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall?
What is the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church?
300
This type of poem does not have a rhyme scheme or meter.
What is free verse poetry?
300
These are groups of lines sharing the same ideas in a poem similar to paragraphs in an essay or story.
What is a stanza?
300
The use of a concrete image to represent something else. Example: The color orange or yellow represents the burning fires of first love in "Oranges".
What is symbolism?
300
According to poet Billy Collins what should you not do in order to find the meaning of a poem?
What is tie the poem to a chair and beat it with a hose?
300
Identify the type of figurative language used in the example. Well, when I write this poem, each phrase go be soaked in salt; I go draw and knot every line as tight as ropes in this rigging; in simple speech my common language go be the wind, my pages the sails of the schooner Flight.
What is dialect?
400
This type of poetry celebrates or remembers someone who died.
What is the elegy?
400
This is the writer's attitude he/she portrays in the poem.
What is tone?
400
a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, work of art, movie, or quote; casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event Example: "I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth." (Pres. Barack Obama at a fundraiser)
What is an allusion? Extra Credit: What two figures is Pres. Obama alluding to?
400
In order to analyze the poem, what should you do in order to analyze what each line of the poem means?
What is line-by-line analysis?
400
What is the example below an example of? Hint: look at the line break. the back wings of the hospital where nothing will grow lie cinders in which shine the broken pieces of a green bottle
What is enjambment, the continuation of a sentence, clause or phrase over a line break?
500
This type of poetry has fourteen lines and a rhyme scheme in 3 quatrains of iambic pentameter. It's rhyme scheme is ABAB | CDCD | EFEF | GG
What a Shakespearean sonnet?
500
This is the central idea or lesson the poet is trying to get across to his/her reader.
What is theme?
500
This is a figure of speech that seems to be false, but is also true; a statement appears to contradict itself; comes from the Greek “contrary to opinion or expectation". Example: "The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot." (Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854)
What is paradox?
500
When identifying rhyme scheme the reader should identify the pattern by using these.
What are letters?
500
This is when a poet or author repeats the same words to add emphasis to the poem or story.
What is repetition?
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