Sonnets Old & New
Shakespeare asked, "Shall I compare thee to" this
What is "A Summer's Day"
The repetition of a word or phrase, like in "The Lamb" by William Blake
What is an anaphora?
When a line of poetry has a repetitive consonant sound
What is consonance?
What is a Doppelgänger?
The poet that died after he had gone blind
Who was John Milton?
The next two words after "Let me not to the marriage of true minds _____-"
What is "admit impediments"?
Telling the future by randomly selecting a passage of literature
What is bibliomancy?
What is a chiasmus?
What is diction?
The poet who died in Italy, at the age of 25
Who is John Keats?
He wrote "They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Who is John Milton?
A contrary statement, opposing premise, an opposite or a contradiction
What is an antithesis?
When you add meaning to a word in addition to it's dictionary and/or literal meaning
What is connotation?
Literally translated "the god in the machine"
What is deux et machina?
The poet who died at age 36 while trying to help the Greek army
Who is Lord Byron?
The name "Ozymandius" means this
A literary genre that focuses on the lifetime development of a character from early childhood to death, like David Copperfield
What is a Bildungsroman?
A pause that occurs within a line of poetry, -no one does this more frequently — with dashes — than Emily Dickinson
What is a Caesura?
The primary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
The poet who drowned, then had is body burned, then had his heart saved, only to have it calcify in a jar under his wife's desk for decades
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
The second Shelley poem about kings and failing empires, written in 1819?
What is "England 1819?"
Something that is old or old-fashioned
What is an archaism?
What is cacophony?
The poem by Byron that describes the Biblical account of 2 Kings 19:23-28 and Isaiah 37
What is The Destruction of Sennacharib?
(I ran out of D terms!)
This poet died at the age of 61. His heart and lungs failed him, likely due to his life-long habit of opium
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?