How do I love thee?/The ways are numberless as/My hairs on the rug.
What is "Dog Haiku" by Anonymous?
100
An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry, apart from its literal denotation or dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
100
A generic term that describes poetry written in some preexisting pattern of meter, rhyme, or stanza.
What is closed form?
100
The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
100
The piercing chill I feel: / my dead wife's comb, in our bedroom, / under my heel . . .
What is imagery (touch)?
200
I looked into his eyes/which were far larger than ine/but shallower, and yellowed,/the irises backed and packed/with tarnished tinfoil/seen through the lenses/of old scratched isinglass.
What is "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop?
200
The most common meter in English verse - five iambic feet per line.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
A recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern in verse.
What is meter?
200
A fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a poem, story, or novel.
What is a persona?
200
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,/ Looking as if she were alive. I call/ That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands/ Worked busily a day, and there she stands./Will't please you sit and look at her?
What is dramatic monologue?
300
The king sits in Dumferling toune, / Drinking the blude-reid wine:/"O whar will I get guid sailor/To sail this schip of mine?"
What is "Sir Patrick Spence" by Anonymous?
300
The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of verse or prose. (i.e. cool cats)
What is alliteration?
300
A metrical foot in verse in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
300
The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a kind of rhyme. (i.e. white lilacs)
What is assonance?
300
who used to/ride a watersmooth-silver stallion/and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat/Jesus
What is projective verse?
400
Say to them,/ say to the down-keepers,/the sun-slappers,/the harmony-hushers,/ "Even if you are not ready for day / it cannot always be night."
What is "Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward" by Gwendolyn Brooks?
400
A line of verse that does not end in punctuation, but carries on grammatically to the next line.
What is a run-on line?
400
The harmonious effect when the sounds of words connect with the meaning in a way pleasing to the ear and mind.
What is euphony?
400
A harsh, discordant sound often mirroring the meaning of the context in which it is used.
What is cacophony?
400
Who says you're like one of the dog days?
What is alliteration?
500
"The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band/Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand."
What is "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich?
500
A metrical foot of verse in which one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is a dactyl?
500
A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is a trochee?
500
A metrical foot in verse in which two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an anapest?
500
No more screeching of the/Seagulls/As they line up for/Chow