Poems
A Japanese poem with 17 syllables following in three lines of 5-7-5
What is Haiku
A comparison using like or as
What is a Simile
The poet of Sonnet 30
Who is William Shakespeare?
Where did Emily Dickinson Live?
What is Amherst MA.
The unit of rhythm
What is Meter
A poem with 14 lines written in Iambic Pentameter.
What is a Sonnet
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Alliteration
The poem "The Raven" uses this device to bring tapping and rapping on my chamber door to life
This Poe's poem has tapping and tapping and rapping and rapping on the chamber door as what element of poetry?
What is Onomatopoeia
The first African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks
Annotation
What is how to analyze a poem
This Robert Browning poem focus on q picture as he tells story
What is "His Last Duchess"
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference in history
What is Allusion
The tile and main character of this poem had a great life and went home and put a bullet in his head
Who is Richard Cory
This poem poem focuses on a Utopian concepts but the family lineage holds that concept back
What is "Kubla Khan"
TPCASTT
What is used to analyze a poem
The actual 7 Ages which Shakespeare writes about are?
1. Infant 2. Schoolboy 3. Lover 4. Soldier 5. Judge 6. An old fool 7. A second childhood/death
The use of the five senses in a piece of literature
What is Imagery
This poet had over 2000 poem written in what seem to be a journal of her personal life
Who is Emily Dickinson
Unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables in a line of five feet
What is Iambic Pentameter
TPCASTT Acronym
Title
Paraphrase
Connotation
Attitude
Shift
Title Revisited
Theme
This author writes about a Lamb and a Tyger in his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
Who is William Blake
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic; central idea
What is Theme
Who Wrote "Shall I Compare Thee To a Summers Day"
What is Shakespeare
What is the name of Edgar Allan Poe's true love?
Who is Virginia
Steps to Read a Poem
What is Show no Fear/Read the title/Then STOP/Read the poem/Annotate/use a dictionary/identify narrator/Notice Shifts/Figure out the structure/read the poem again
In this Coleridge poem a man must repeat his tale to anyone that he meets to ease his soul of pain
What is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
ABAB CDCD EFEF
What is a rhyme scheme
The tile of this poem begins with "I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end
What is "A Poison Tree"
The subject of The Raven or name of lost love
What is Lenore
This McKay poem has an ironic theme to the love of a country
What is America