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This form of poetry is Japanese and typically has three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.
What is Haiku?
100
This poet wrote the famous line from the Raven, "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
100
This poetry term means "a verse, or a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem."
What is "stanza?"
100
This form of poetry is one in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically.
What is "acrostic?"
100
Analyze this stanza from Romeo and Juliet: "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she."
What is - He is comparing Juliet to the sun in the sky, including the placement in the East. He is asking the sun to rise and therefore obscure the moon, who is obviously not as brilliant and figuratively must be jealous.
200
This is a style of poetry whose verse does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
What is Free-Verse?
200
This Giving Tree author wrote, "One sister for sale, One sister for sale, One crying and spying young sister for sale I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isnt there isnt there any One person who will buy this sister for sale This crying spying old young sister for sale.”
Who is Shel Silverstein?
200
This term can refer to the visual structure of the poem or to its patterns.
What is "form?"
200
This form of poetry is a pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length and is “closed” - the lines form a bounded grammatical unit like a sentence.
What is a "couplet?"
200
Analyze this ending of a poem written by Langston Hughes: "That's American. Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that's true! As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me--- although you're older---and white--- and somewhat more free. This is my page for English B."
What is - We are all Americans and we are part of each others' stories. We may not always like that, but it is the truth. We learn from each others' pasts and mistakes. Some of us have more advantages than others.
300
This is a form of poetry that is funny and has roots in Ireland. It consists of five lines of which the first, second, and fifth have three metrical feet and rhyme together and the third and fourth have two metrical feet and rhyme together.
What is Limerick?
300
This author and poet wrote for children, an example of which is "“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.”
Who is Dr. Seuss or Theodor Seuss Geisel?
300
This term refers to corresponding sounds between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is "rhyme?"
300
This is a form of poem that has 14 lines and a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England. Closely associated with Shakespeare.
What is a "sonnet?"
300
Analyze this Robert Frost poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay:" "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."
What is - The most beautiful things in life often have the least longevity. The poem uses the examples of spring blooms, the Garden of Eden, and sunrise to get this point across, leaving us to think about all the things in our lives that are so wonderful and so transient. Whether it's the euphoria of winning a soccer game, or the youth of our minds and bodies, we've all experienced something wonderful that has faded away incredibly fast. Ah, the inevitable bummer.
400
This is a style of poetry that usually does not rhyme, but has a stanza of five lines.
What is Cinquain?
400
This poet ended a play with the following lines: "A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd. For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Who is William Shakespeare?
400
This term refers to the number or arrangement of syllables or lines in a poem.
What is "meter?"
400
This is a short form of poem intended for or imagined as an inscription on a tombstone. "Here she lies, a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood, Who as soon fell fast asleep As her little eyes did peep. Give her strewings, but not stir The earth that lightly covers her."
What is an "epitaph?"
400
Analyze this portion of a sonnet from Shakespeare: "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom."
What is - Time has no effect on Love. Even though we may all lose our looks as we age, true Love stands the test of time and decay and will be strong until our dying day.
500
This is a poem whose meaning is conveyed through its graphic shape or pattern on the printed page.
What is Shape or Concrete Poem?
500
This African American poet wrote: "You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
500
This term is just another word for "definition" and is usually what we ask you to find when you analyze a poem.
What is "meaning?"
500
This is a Japanese form of poetry made of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all.
What is "tanka?"
500
Analyze this poem by Emily Dickinson: Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – I keep it, staying at Home – With a Bobolink for a Chorister – And an Orchard, for a Dome – Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice – I, just wear my Wings – And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church, Our little Sexton – sings. God preaches, a noted Clergyman – And the sermon is never long, So instead of getting to Heaven, at last – I’m going, all along.
What is - Some people think it is more important to BE in a church in order to worship. I can worship God anywhere, even in nature...And while some are working on worshiping the 'right' way in order to get to Heaven, I feel I have been there all along.
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