Poetic Toolbox
A poet describes a bakery through the smell of warm bread, the heat of the oven, and the crunch of sugar. What stylistic device is being used?
Sensory details
In the comparison discussed in class, which poet's performance primarily invited the audience toward personal reflection?
Sarah Kay
A student carefully studies how another poet uses repetition, titles, and rhythm so that she can understand how those techniques work and later experiment with them in her own writing. What practice is she using?
Reading like a writer
A student copies another poet's work, changes only a few words, and publishes it under their own name. What has the student committed?
Plagiarism
Instead of writing “love is like a rose,” a poet deliberately searches for an unusual and unexpected image that better expresses the experience. What principle is the poet applying?
Originality and Risk
A poem about temptation used the forbidden fruit as a metaphor in his poem. What stylistic device is being used?
Literary allusion
Which poet's performance primarily encouraged the audience toward collective action?
Amanda Gorman
A student actively learns the poem by repeatedly typing out poems she admires so she can physically experience their rhythm, sentence patterns, and line breaks. What kind of learning does this demonstrate?
Kinesthetic learning
A writer takes the plot of an older work, places it in a modern Philippine setting, changes the characters and conflict, and acknowledges the original source. What creative practice is being demonstrated?
Adaptation
A poet removes unnecessary adjectives and repetitive phrases because the remaining words already communicate the intended meaning. What core principle is being applied?
Economy of Language
A poet describes heartbreak as a sinking ship. He established the metaphor all throughout by having memories become leaking rooms, arguments become storms, and the breakup becomes the final shipwreck. What stylistic device is being used?
Extended metaphor
A poem uses written words, voice, gestures, and movement together to create meaning. What concept does this demonstrate?
Multimodality
While riding a jeepney, a poet writes down the sound of coins passing between passengers, the vibration of the engine, and the smell of rain outside. What source of poetic inspiration does this resemble?
Environmental triggers
Writers willingly share ideas and techniques because they trust that others will learn from them without falsely claiming their work as their own. What principle makes this creative exchange possible?
Intellectual Generosity
Instead of saying "I am lonely and sad", the poet described the feeling through "Show, Do not tell" technique. Which core principle does the poet demonstrates?
Evocation over direct statement
A poet speaks directly from a personal first-person perspective, making the speaker and the author of the poem one and the same. What characteristic of this type of poetry is being demonstrated?
The Lyric “I”
During a performance, the poet begins in a calm, conversational voice but suddenly becomes louder and more urgent when discussing injustice. What performance technique is being used?
Tonal shift
A poet constantly notices fragments of conversations, unusual shadows, tiny gestures, and objects that most people overlook. What idea introduced by Sudeep Sen does this illustrate?
A poet draws inspiration from an existing text but uses it to communicate a completely different message instead of simply copying or paraphrasing the orignal. What principle of authenticity is being demonstrated?
Transformation purpose
In a poem about grief, the imagery, sounds, structure, word choices, and recurring symbols all contribute toward creating the same emotional impact. What core principle is demonstrated?
Unity of effect
This mid-20th-century American poetic movement broke literary taboos by using raw, candid language to explore deeply personal and autobiographical experiences. What is it?
Confessional Poetry
A performer deliberately raises the pitch of their voice to emphasize an important line or build anticipation. What performance technique is being used?
Rising intonation
Edward Thomas lets the environment think the thoughts for him. What concept is being described?
Amanuensis
Writer B writes in the voice of a member of that culture and claims to represent what the community truly experiences. Which form of appropriation is illustrated?
Subject Appropriation
A poem jumps among childhood memories, city noises, dreams, conversations, and images of rain. Although these elements are highly varied, every one eventually reinforces the central idea of losing one's home. What two stylistic forces are working together?
Centrifugal Variety and Centripetal Unity