Examples
This was the literary device most predominantly used in "Dear Star".
What is apostrophe?
What is a volta?
This poem from the Elite 8 was written by Frank O'Hara.
What is "Ave Maria"?
These stanzas make up a villanelle.
What is a 19 line poem in 5 three line stanzas (tercets) and a four line stanza (quatrain)?
Formatting a title of a poem in MLA.
What is to write the title of a poem within quotation marks?
Caden drives with a lead foot.
(two possible answers - provide both)
What is idiom? What is synecdoche?
This type of irony is when the audience knows more than the character(s).
What is dramatic irony?
The tone of the following lines:
The Spanish Inquisition was nothing more / than an outbreak of questions such as / "How far is it from here to Madrid?" / "What do you call the matador's hat?" / The War of the Roses took place in a garden, / and the Enola Gay dropped one tiny atom on Japan.
What is satirical (using humor to critique), ironic, humorous, and/or cautionary?
Differences between blank and free verse.
What is that blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter (so it have form), and that free verse does not have any set form/a set meter?
The poem "Invitation" from our Elite 8 was written by this poet.
Who is Mary Oliver?
What kind of metrical foot makes up these lines: Double, double toil and trouble
What is a trochee? (/U)
Explain the difference between consonance, assonance, and alliteration.
What is that consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds at the middle and/or end of lines whereas alliteration is the repetition of consonants at the beginning of words, and assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in a word.
Figurative language used in these lines: "You call them wild curls. I call them breathing. Ancestors spiraling. / Can’t you see them in this wet hair that waves like hello?"
(two answers - provide both)
What is personification? What is metaphor?
Explain the differences between an Italian and an English sonnet.
What is that they have different types of stanzas (Italian = octave + sestet, English = 3 quatrains and 1 rhyming couplet) and different rhyme schemes (Italian = ABBAABBA CDCDCD or CDECDE, English = ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)?
This is how you write an in-text/parenthetical citation for a poem.
What is line numbers in parenthesis?
Example: "Quote goes here" (line(s) #s).
"May this be the day / We come together" (lines 1-2).
The rhyme in "Listen very close 'cause I don't like to boast".
What is internal rhyme?
Name the five types of stanzas from our list.
What is a Couplet-2 lines, Tercet-3 lines, Quatrain-4 lines, Sestet-6 lines, Octave-8 lines?
Type of poem: "l(a)..." by e.e. cummings
What is a visual and imagist poem? What is a lyric poem? What is a free verse poem?
Literary terms: "God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: / Exit seraphim and Satan's men: / I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead."
(3 answers - provide all)
What is alliteration, personification, and allusion (Biblical)?
Juxtaposition is acceptable as well.
Thesis template for Lit/Comp II Honors.
What is: the (genre) (title) (author’s name) presents (2-3 literary ideas-how you divided the text), ultimately illustrating that (theme statement/universal truth OR specific insight about the idea).
SPECIFIC term in this line: "O brawling love! O loving hate!"
What is an oxymoron?
Explain the difference between cacophony and euphony?
What is that cacophony is unpleasant sounds paired together, whereas euphony is pleasing sounds paired together?
"Caged Bird" predominantly uses this literary device.
What is extended metaphor?
Types of rhyme (2 answers):
"Let us suddenly / proclaim spring. And jeer"
What is end rhyme and slant rhyme?
Edit this sentence for formal writing conventions, wordiness, and switch linking to action verbs.
The speaker is talking about New Years when she references "For auld lang syne" (line 21), which is an example of an allusion to create a celebratory tone.
Multiple answer allowed. Example:
The speaker alludes to New Years with "For auld lang syne" (line 21), thereby establishing a celebratory tone.