Any composition in lines of more or less regular rhythm, often ending in rhymes.
What is verse
100
a particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group or social class.
What is dialect
100
"Coo as a cucumber" and "My love is like a red, red rose," are examples of?
What is a simile
100
1) A harsh, discordant sound often mirroring the meaning of the context in which it is used.
2) The harmonious effect when the sounds of the words connect with the meaning in a way pleasing to the ear and mind.
What is cacophony and euphony
100
A very short, comic poem, often turning at the end with some sharp wit or unexpected stinger.
What is Epigram
200
"And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood"
The speaker wants to take both roads at one, since it is impossible to do so, he has to choose one path.
What type of example is this?
What is paraphrase
200
An indirect reference to any person, place, or thing-fictitious, historical, or actual.
What is allusion
200
A statement that one things is something else, which, in a literal sense, it is not.
What is a metaphor
200
Zoom, Bang, Crash, Whiz, Ding-Dong, Plop, Smack, is an example of:
What is onomatopoeia
200
a two-line stanza in poetry, usually rimed and with lines of equal length.
What is couplet
300
a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.
What is lyric poem
300
Diction refers to the class of words that an author chooses as appropriate for a particular work. Name the three types of diction:
What is concrete, abstract, and poetic
300
"John crowed over his victory," it is implied metaphorically that John is a rooster but do not say so specifically. This is what type of metaphor?
What is implied metaphor
300
"But soft, | what light | through yon | der win | dow breaks?"
-William Shakespeare
What type of accentual-syllabic meter is this?
What is Iambic
300
A poetry whose lines follow no consistent meter.
What is free verse
400
In Robert Frost's poem "Out, Out-" is an example of what type of poem?
What is a narrative poem
400
the casual conversation or informal writing of literate people
What is colloquial
400
Figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.
What is metonymy
400
1) "This is the | forest pri | meval. The | murmuring | pines and the | hemlock."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2) "Go and | catch a | falling | star"
-John Donne
What type of meters do these poems follow?(Most be in order)
(Hint: They are not the same meters)
What is Dactylic and Trochaic
400
Poetic language printed in prose paragraphs, but displaying the careful attention to sound, imagery, and figurative language characteristics of poetry.
What is prose poetry
500
A poem intended to teach a moral lesson or impart a body of knowledge.
What is Didactic poem
500
The language of the common people, it refers simply to unschooled, everyday speech.
What is vulgate
500
"O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days,"
-William Shakespeare
This is an example of what type of figures of speech?
What is personification
500
Verse meter based on the number of stresses per line, not the number of syllables.
What is accentual meter
500
What rime scheme do the Italian Sonnet and English Sonnet follow?
What is
Italian Sonnet: a b b a a b b a
English Sonnet: a b a c d c d e f e f g g