Poetry -Mixed bag
The pattern in which words that rhyme ( or do not) in poetry
What is the rhyme scheme?
A kind of poem having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
What is lyric?
"Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of?
What is alliteration
this is an excerpt written by E.E. Cummings from what poem?
"...who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion"
What is Buffalo Bill's
this person wrote a poem titled "Harlem"
Who is Langston Hughes
The attitude that a writer conveys toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
What is Tone
a poem told for the specific purpose of telling a story
What is Narrative?
This directly compares two unlike things without the use of a specific word such as "like" to make the comparison
What is a metaphor
this is an excerpt from a poem written by William Carlos Williams
"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox.... forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold"
What is "This is Just to Say"
this poet wrote "The Pool Players"
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks
This type of poem tells a story.
What is a narrative?
a poem that can be acted out
What is Dramatic?
This is when writers give human or living qualities to nonliving things.
What is personification
This is an excerpt from a poem written by Langston Hughes
"I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong."
What is "I Too"
This man wrote a poem titled "I hear American Singing"
Who is Walt Whitman
A poem that mourns the passing of something.
What is an elegy?
a narrative poem that is usually meant to be a song, focuses on tragic events and, contains dialogue and repetition, implies more than is said
What is a Ballad?
The voice talking in a poem
What is speaker
This is an excerpt from a poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.....one calm summer night he put a bullet through his head"
What is "Richard Cory"
This poet wrote a 2 sentence poem titled,
"In a Station at The Metro"
Who is Ezra Pound
This poet was put on the FBI Watchlist for his poems
Who is Allen Ginsberg
a fourteen-line poem; usually written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
This is a poem that sounds like ordinary speech. There is no regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is free verse
This is an excerpt from a poem by William Wordsworth
"For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
What is "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
This poet wrote "In Goyas Greatest Scenes"
Who is Lawrence Ferlinghetti