Name That Poet
American Poets
Children's Poets
Poetry Terms
Rhyme Time
100
He wrote: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Who is Robert Frost.?
100
Within three years of this poet's birth, both his parents died. Later, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
This famous children's poet was once a cartoonist for Playboy.
Who is Shel Silverstein?
100
A,B,A,B C,D,C,D, E,F,E,F, GG
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
100
I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are
you
200
She wrote: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
He wrote: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
His real last name is Geisel.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
200
A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's sonnets, Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, and Robert Frost's meditative poems such as "Birches" include many lines of this.
What is blank verse?
200
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village
though
300
He wrote: so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens
Who is William Carlos Williams?
300
She wrote: Yankee Doodle went to town, A-riding on a pony; Stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni.
Who is Mother Goose?
300
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy."
What is alliteration?
300
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to
thee.
400
She wrote: Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
Our current U.S. poet laureate, she wrote: I returned to a country battlefield where colored troops fought and died— Port Hudson where their bodies swelled and blackened beneath the sun—unburied until earth’s green sheet pulled over them, unmarked by any headstones. Where the roads, buildings, and monuments are named to honor the Confederacy, where that old flag still hangs, I return to Mississippi, state that made a crime of me—mulatto, half-breed—native in my native land, this place they’ll bury me.
Who is Natasha Trethewey?
400
The current Children's Poet Laureate.
Who is J. Patrick Lewis?
400
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to-DAY.
What is an iamb?
400
What is my apology for poetry? The empty briar is swishing When I come down, and beyond, inside, your face Haunts like a new moon glimpsed through tangled
glass
500
He wrote: I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
500
Washington's current poet laureate.
Who is Kathleen Flenniken?
500
This British poet wrote: Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Who is William Blake?
500
A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. An example is "My love is a red, red rose."
What is a metaphor?
500
Hamlet noticed them in the shapes of clouds, but I saw them in the furniture of childhood, creatures trapped under surfaces of
wood
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