What is Poetry
Parts of Speech
Poems
Poets
100
This is a part of a word that contains a vowel sound
what is a syllable?
100
In this exert from the poem, "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost apple trees are an example of this part of speech
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
What is a noun?
100
This follows a 5-7-5 syllable pattern
What is a Haiku?
100
This 18-19th century poet wrote poems mostly about nature
Who is Robert Frost
200
This is words grouped together in a horizontal row of a poem
What is a line?
200
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Shel Silverstein uses this to help you see the picutre in your mind
What is imagery?
200
Titles of Poems, songs, and short stories are enclosed in these
what are quotation marks
200
This famous playwrite wrote mostly in iambic pentameter, found in Hamlet, Cesar, Rome and Juliet
What is Shakespeare
300
This poem by e.e. cummings is an example of this which involves a two line stanza
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
What is a couplet?
300
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
This type of poem does not follow any rules. It is often associated with writers from the 60's
What is free verse
300
This famous quote "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" is from this poet, who is known for his creepier topics. Some include ravens and, dead bodies
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
400
This line from Shakespeare shows the pattern of rhymes of beats also know as this in a poem
what is meter?
400
Be, am, is, are, was, were, has been, any other form of the verb “be”, become, and seem
What are linking verbs
400
This type of poem uses the first letter from a word
What is an acrostic poem?
400
"Fire and Ice" is one of this poets well known poems. It does differ slightly from his usual nature poems
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Who is Robert Frost
500
"I wandered lonely as a Cloud" is a line from
William Wordsworth poem is an example of this type of metaphor.
What is a simlie?
500
This rapper also published a book of poetry A Rose that Grew from the Concrete.
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
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