Poetic Forms
A Japanese poem with 17 syllables following in three lines of 5-7-5
What is a Haiku
A comparison using like or as
What is a Simile
The writer of several Elizabethan sonnets
Who is William Shakespeare
The difference between Prose and Verse
One is written in sentences and paragraphs and the other is composed of lines and stanzas.
A two-syllable unit of rhythm
What is a Foot
A 14-line poem often written in Iambic Pentameter.
What is a Sonnet
The idea or feeling that a word invokes (beyond its literal meaning).
What is Connotation
This poet wrote "The Chimney Sweeper"
Who is William Blake
The word choices made by a writer
What is Diction
Name three characteristics of modernism.
What is Fragmentation, Impressionism, Imagism, Stream of Consciousness, rule breaking, pessimism.
Verse that does not rhyme but does follow a meter (usually iambic pentameter).
What is Blank Verse
An extreme exaggeration
What is Hyperbole
The writer of "Still, I Rise"
Who is Maya Angelou
Three characteristics of the Vietnam War include:
Guerrilla warfare, unknown enemy, atrocities on both sides, chemical warfare, backlash against soldiers, village burnings.
A direct comparison of two unlike things.
What is a Metaphor.
A narrative poem (originally sung) that tells an epic story.
What is a Ballad
The use of the five senses in a piece of literature: creating a picture for the reader.
What is Imagery
Name one famous World War I poet
Who is Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, e.e. Cummings, Rupert Brooke
Unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables in a line of five feet
What is Iambic Pentameter
The origin country of the Sonnet
What is Italy
This type of poem generally contains three parts: a lamentation, praise and consolation.
What is an Elegy
Repetition of vowel sounds in multiple words.
What is Assonance
The literary era of Langston Hughes
What is the Harlem Renaissance
The animal of one of Edgar Allan Poe's poems.
What is a Raven
A pause or break in the middle of a poetic line.
What is a Caesura
A poem that addresses a particular person, thing or object in an elevated style.
What is an Ode
What type of perfect rhyme is this pair: "slant/grant."
What is Masculine Rhyme
The writer of "The Road Not Taken."
Who is Robert Frost
One famous transcendental poet
Who is Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Emily Dickinson
This poetic period dealt with aesthetics, writing flourishes and manners/society.
What is Victorian poetry