Term Limits
The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of repeated words
What is Alliteration?
A famous Elizabethan poet who is known as "The Bard of London."
Who is William Shakespeare?
A movement that focuses on going back to the romantic appeals of the medieval and classical periods. It arose in the late 1700s as a response to the logical and scientific beliefs of the Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
A poem's rhythm.
What is Meter?
A poem composed of 14 lines including 3 quatrains and a final rhyming couplet.
What is a Sonnet?
When words mimic their meaning in their sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A darker movement that arose in the 1700s and focused on monsters and the grotesque.
What is Gothic?
A meter measurement defined by two or more stressed and/or unstressed syllables.
What is a Foot/poetic foot?
A 19-line poem consisting of 3 tercets and a final quatrain. The first and third line repeat over the course of the poem.
What is a Villanelle?
The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants.
What is Assonance?
This 19th century poet is known for their short poems focusing on themes of loneliness and nature.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This American movement began in an NYC neighborhood and strove to center Black voices in literature and art.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables.
What is a spondee?
A poem with no set meter.
What is Free Verse Poetry?
A vivid, dramatic description of a piece of art.
What is Ekphrasis?
The current poet laureate of the United States.
Who is Ada Limon?
This period refers to poetry, art, and literature from the time of Queen Elizabeth I's reign.
What is Elizabethan poetry?
A metrical foot consisting of an accented/stressed syllable followed by an unaccented/unstressed one.
What is a trochee?
A poem that celebrates and laments the dead.
What is an elegy?
A phrase or singular name used to replace someone or something’s proper name
What is an Epithet?
Taylor Swift name drops this Welsh poet in the title track off her 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department.
Who is Dylan Thomas?
A style or movement in the arts that sought to break from classical forms and romantic forms. This was largely embraced by writers such as T.S. Elliot and James Joyce.
What is Modernism?
A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by an accented one-- mimicking the sound of a human heartbeat.
What is an iamb?
This poem celebrates something or someone.
What is an ode?