Poetic Forms
Figurative Lang.
Poetic Structure
Mr. Simpson's Picks
Poets to Know
100
A 3-line poem consisting of 17 syllables
What is a haiku?
100
A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to not living things
What is Personification?
100
This poem has no set meter or rhyme scheme.
What is Free Verse?
100
In Chicago by Carl Sandburg the author refers to Chicago as the city of "Big Shoulders" what type of figurative language is this.
Metaphor
100
This famous poet of advice to reader who may serve time in prison.
Who is Nazim Hikmet?
200
This poetic form is characterized by its 14 lines and ABBA ABBA rhyme scheme.
What is an Italian Sonnet?
200
"Break a Leg"
What is an idiom?
200
The pattern of rhyme that emerges in poem
What is a rhyme scheme?
200
The Dr. Pepper was sweeter than honey and crisper than McDonald's Sprite.
What is a Metaphor?
200
The poet laureate of Joe Biden's 2020 election who told us all about the hill we must climb,
Who is Amanda Gorman?
300
A 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets and a quatrain
What is a Villanelle?
300
She is my sun, my moon, and stars.
What is a metaphor?
300
This is also known as the rhythm or beat of the poem.
What is meter?
300
Who is this man?
Who Walt Whitman?
300
This Welsh poet urged his father to fight against the dying of the light.
Who is Dylan Thomas?
400
A 14-line poetic form characterized by ABAB rhyme scheme
What is an English Sonnet?
400
When asked about whether or not she'd be at tonight's basketball game she replied it's a "definite maybe" What type of figurative language is this
What is an oxymoron?
400
The term used to describe a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
This famous American poet is credited with introducing free verse to poetry.
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
This poet offered an alternative to our national anthem claiming that it didn't represent all people.
Who is Ada Limon?
500
A poetic form aimed at celebrating a specific person, item or subject
What is an Ode?
500
If I drank a thousand Dr. peppers, it wouldn't be enough.
What is hyperbole?
500
No rhyme but a set meter keeps the rhythm in these poems.
What is Blank Verse?
500
As the man was being chased away by several loose alpaca, a passerby shouted, "Run Forrest, run" Name the literary device.
What is an allusion?
500
This legendary writer famously compared his love to a summer's day, claiming that she was more lovely and more temperate.
Who is William Shakespeare?