Poetic Devices
Poetic Forms
The Poems
The Poets
Potpourri
100
The repetition of initial sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
It goes 5-7-5.
What is Haiku?
100
Shakespeare asked, "Shall I compare thee to a ..."
What is 'summer's day'?
100
He offered an 'Introduction to Poetry.'
Who is Billy Collins?
100
A collection of writing or poems.
What is an anthology?
200
It means offering human qualities to inhuman things.
What is personification?
200
It has no rules.
What is free verse?
200
Golden Retrievals is this kind of poem, written from a dog's perspective.
What is a sonnet?
200
We wrote and sang of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Who is Gordon Lightfoot?
200
Poe wrote a sonnet to this subject. Walsh! McGregor! Wannamaker!
What is science?
300
A comparison using 'like' or 'as.'
What is a simile?
300
It is often bawdy and funny.
What is a limerick?
300
'Ode to a Goldfish' is this many lines.
What is 1?
300
He suggested to 'ask not for whom the bell tolls / it tolls for thee.'
Who is John Donne?
300
Recite the third and fourth lines: 'The way a crow shook down on me."
What is 'the dust of snow / from a hemlock tree."?
400
It is the repetition of interior vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
400
It consists of three quatrains and a couplet.
What is a sonnet?
400
A sonnet was performed in class from this famous Shakespearean play.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
400
He wrote two poems of snow, probably because his name demands it.
Who is Robert Frost?
400
He was the only local poet we read.
Who is RD Patrick?
500
This technique requires addressing imagined or inhuman things as if they were real. Grammar anyone?
What is apostrophe?
500
It's the form in which we heard Marty Robbins.
What is a ballad?
500
'Travelling Through the Dark' discussed the death of this on a deserted road.
What is a deer?
500
This Canadian writer smashed a bird but declared "I am a good driver."
Who is Michael Ondaatje?
500
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield compose one of these poems in space.
What is a haiku?
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