This poem describes the sounds of Americans as they happily work.
What is "I Hear America Singing"?
100
Example: Walking on thin ice.
What is idiom?
100
This is the rhyme scheme for the following:
day, play, same, game, rest, test, that, bat
What is A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D?
200
The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
What is rhyme?
200
In this poem, Pablo Neruda shows appreciation for this word. In other languages the appreciated word is merci, spasibo, danke, and gracias.
What is "Ode to Thanks"?
200
Example: "While I nodded, nearly napping..."
What is alliteration?
200
The article "The New England Poet", the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", and the poem "Out, Out-" are all by/about this man.
Who is Robert Frost?
300
A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. "O Captain! My Captain" would be an example of this.
What is elegy?
300
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This is the rhyme scheme for the poem "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
"The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead..."
What is A, B, B, A?
300
Example: "The gurgling sound of my brother slurping his soup was enough to drive me crazy."
What is imagery?
300
This poet wrote "I, Too" and "Refugee in America."
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
A 5 line humorous or nonsensical poem with definite rhyme scheme.
What is limerick?
400
The speaker in "Saying Yes" is this ethnicity.
What is Chinese-American?
400
Example: "This steak is as tough as an old leather shoe!"
What is simile?
400
In "Birdfoot's Grampa" the old man stops the car to save these.
What are toads?
500
A comparison between two unlike things. Example: "She had a heart of stone."
What is a metaphor?
500
She is personified with the ability to speak to immigrants in the poem "The New Colossus".
What is the Statue of Liberty?
500
Example: "The rain hit the window with a soft pitterpatter."
What is onomatopoeia?
500
He was the first poet we read. Ms. Thompson adores him because he is sick and twisted.