A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words "like" or "as."
Simile
100
Identify the poetic device best exemplified in the following quote:
"I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold / Or all the riches that the East doth hold."
Hyperbole
100
Who was the first published American poet?
Anne Bradstreet
100
Anne Bradstreet is an example of a poet from which literary movement?
Colonial
100
Identify the poetic device: The use of words that mimic the sounds they describe.
Onomatopoeia
200
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.
Personification
200
Identify the poetic device best exemplified in the following quote: "When thoughts of the last bitter hour come like a blight over thy spirit."
Simile
200
Anne Bradstreet was most proud of...
Her role as wife and mother
200
Which movement tried to find 'truth' through various senses?
Transcendentalism
200
What movement comes after the Age of Reason?
Romanticism
300
A reference to a mythological, literary, or historic person/place/thing.
Allusion
300
Identify the poetic device best exemplified in the following quote: "Because I could not stop for Death-- / He kindly stopped for me--."
Personification
300
Which poet was known for being a hermit?
Emily Dickinson
300
Which is the most recent literary movement?
Contemporary/Post Modernism
300
Which movement did not have any major poets?
Age of Reason
400
Deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.
Understatement
400
Identify the poetic device best exemplified in the following quote: "Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor / He played a few chords then he sang some more"
Onomatopoeia
400
Who is the author of "Song of Myself?"
Walt Whitman
400
Gwendolyn Brooks is a poet from which literary movement?
Modernism
400
What poet from the Realism movement wrote "The First Snowfall?"
Robert Lowell
500
The repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words.
Assonance
500
Identify the two poetic devices best exemplified in the following quote:
"I remembered the gradual patience
That fell from that cloud like snow,
Flake by flake, healing and hiding
The scar of our deep-plunged woe."
Simile and Alliteration
500
Identify the poet: "I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."
Allen Ginsberg
500
Which two movements comes after Transcendentalism? (List in order!)
Realism and Modernism
500
Who are the two main poets of the 'Beat Generation?'