Rhythm and Meter
A poem that tells a story, has a plot, characters.
What is a narrative poem?
"Love has earth to which she clings
With hills and circling arms about-
What is personification?
Repeating words, lines, or phrases.
What is repetition?
When a poem does not have any rhyme, a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and adheres to no form.
What is free verse?
"Fog hanging like old coats between the trees"
What is a simile?
A famous American female poet who preferred to be alone and not associate with anyone and whose work was published posthumously.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
When the rhythm of the lines of a poem has a certain pattern.
What is meter?
Exaggerating something, typically for humorous or dramatic effect.
What is hyperbole?
"Normal" way of speaking/writing that does not adhere to any poetic form or style.
What is prose?
"If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim"
What is parallelism?
When multiple lines in a poem share the same syntactic structure (not repetition).
What is parallelism?
When two things are compared to or placed next to each other, specifically for the purpose of highlighting their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
A fourteen-line poem that is grouped in 3 quatrains and a couplet.
What is a (Shakespearean) sonnet?
Love -
"It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark"
What is metaphor?
A statement that seems contradictory on it's surface, but is actually true or reflective of a deeper "universal" truth.
Ex. The more I sleep, the more tired I am...or...My biggest strength is also my biggest weakness.
What is a paradox?
A poem that is typically playful and meant to entertain and amuse (often childlike in tone) Ex. Dr. Suess, nursery rhymes.
What is light verse?
"will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world"
What is consonance?
A spoken-word poetry competition.
What is a poetry slam?