THINGS USED IN POETRY
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
What is the main theme in most of Edgar Allen Poe's poems?
DEATH
When you give a human characteristic to something that is NOT human
What is personification?
Who is known as the "Bard of Avon" and wrote 154 sonnets?
William Shakespeare
It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine
Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine
Biggie Smalls/ Notorious B.I.G
A literary genre that is comprised of poems
What is poetry?
What is the famous repeated phrase from "The Raven"?
NEVERMORE!
The use of repeated sounds, words, or phrases
Which American poet won a record four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry?
Robert Frost
Stop, drop, shut 'em down, open up shop
DMX
A single unit in a poem; a word, phrase or sentence
What is a line?
Which poem begins: "It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea, "
Annabel Lee
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words
What is alliteration?
Which Harlem Renaissance leader was known as the "Poet Laureate of Harlem"?
Langston Hughes
When I was young, me and my mama had beef
Seventeen years old, kicked out on the streets
2PAC
A stanza containing four lines
What is quatrain?
Which NFL team is the only professional sports franchise named after a work of literature in honor of Poe?
The Baltimore Ravens.
This poet has books entitled The Door of No Return and Light for the World to See.
Kwame Alexander
Still I Rise is this poets most famous poem.
Maya Angelou
You live in my dream state
Relocate my fantasy
I stay in reality
Tyler, The Creator
The blooming flowers smelled of perfume and honey in the cool fresh spring air.
What is an example of imagery?
Poe was born in what City?
Boston Mass.
Which Japanese poetic form consists of three unrhymed lines with a 5-7-5 syllable structure?
HAIKU
Ms. Nika's favorite poet?
John Keats
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death
NAS