Poetry Types
Haiku
What does the FIRST "T" stand for?
Title
She's as fast as a cheetah
Simile
True or False: Walt Whitman wrote extensively about nature and American freedom.
True
O Captain! My Captain! is an elegy for what U.S. President?
Abraham Lincoln
Limericks and Couplets are what type of poems
How many times should you read a poem to correctly annotate it?
2-3
I've told you a million times to stop talking
Hyperbole
What two poets we discussed are from Missouri?
Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou
What is the theme of Caged Bird by Maya Angelou?
Freedom
How many lines does a Cinquain poem have?
Five
What does it mean to paraphrase something?
The sky misses the sun at night
Personification
Langston Hughes was famous during what literature movement in the 1920s?
The Harlem Renaissance
In Mother to Son, Langston Hughes uses what as a metaphor for life?
A staircase
Many autobiographical poems are what type of poetry?
Free verse
What does the "shift" in a poem represent?
The bees are buzzing
Onomatopoeia
Maya Angelou delivered her poem "A Brave and Startling Truth" before what global organization?
What happens to William Blake's foe at the end of his poem A Poison Tree?
He dies
If the last lines of a poems are:
cat
mat
club
shrub
what is the rhyme scheme?
AABB
What is the difference between connotation and denotation?
Denotation is the literal meaning of a word.
Connotation is what the word could mean or feel.
Time is a thief
Metaphor
I, Too by Langston Hughes is a response to what poem by Walt Whitman?
Robert Frost. Beautiful things do not last forever.