Vocabulary Terms
Open form poetry not dictated by an established form or meter
What is Free Verse?
Also known as The Bard
Who is William Shakespeare?
"I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence"
What is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost?
5-7-5
What is a Haiku?
National Poetry Month
What is April?
A two-line stanza, or two lines of verse
What is a couplet?
Plato called this ancient poet "The Tenth Muse"; author of "Ode to Aphrodite"
Who is Sappho?
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"
What is Howl by Allen Ginsberg?
14 lines, Iambic Pentameter
What is a Sonnet?
This eccentric English nobleman/poet owned a pet bear which he'd walk around the campus of Cambridge
Who is Lord Byron?
The repetition of similar vowel sounds
What is assonance?
This famous poet only published 10 of 1,800 poems during her lifetime
Who is Emily Dickinson?
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor / Shall be lifted—nevermore!"
What is The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe?
A five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme that tells a short, comedic tale
What is a Limerick?
Chilean Pulitzer-Prize winner who wrote all of his in green ink
Who is Pablo Neruda?
A three-line stanza
What is a tercet?
The first African-American poet to publish a book of poetry
Who is Philis Wheatley?
"Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair."
What is Mother to Son by Langston Hughes?
Found in the Hebrew Bible; Each line begins with the the letters of the alphabet
What is an Abecedarian?
This famous French poet stopped writing at the age of 19
Who is Arthur Rimbaud?
A rhetorical shift marking the change of thought or argument in a poem.
What is the volta?
The current U.S. Poet Laureate
Who is Ada Limón?
"And I will come again, my luve, / Though it were ten thousand mile."
What is A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns?
Traditional Arabic form of love poetry composed of couplets ending with the same words or phrases
What is a Ghazal?
The longest poem ever written
What is the Mahabharata?