Poetry Terms
Who is speaking to whom under what circumstances.
What is dramatic situation
Concrete thing/action that implies a meaning beyond its literal sense.
What is a symbol?
Brief poems that were meant to be sung or chanted to the accompaniment of a lyre.
What is Lyric Poetry?
The poet of Ways of Talking.
Who is Ha Jin?
This broke the most-liked-picture record on Instagram.
What is the egg?
The speaker of the poem.
What is the persona?
Use of a related object to stand for the thing actually being talked about.
What is metonymy?
A long narrative poem about the exploits of a hero intended for public recitation.
What is an epic?
The author of Occupation.
Who is Suji Kwock Kim?
Where does Rachel live?
The person or persons spoken to in the poem.
What is the Auditor?
Words that are no longer in common use.
Archaisms
Shorter narratives with song-like qualities which often include rhyme and repeated refrains.
What is a ballad?
The author of Telephone Conversation.
Who is Wole Soyinka?
The world's longest river.
What is the Amazon?
A poem written about or for an important event.
What is occasional verse?
What is a synecdoche?
Follows a strict rhyme scheme and specified structure. 14 lines, 10 syllables per line, couplets.
What is a sonnet?
The author of Strange Fruit.
Who is Abel Meeropol?
The time period of the fall of the Soviet Union.
What happened during 1990-1991?
A direct comparison between two, unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
Dropping a letter done for the sake of maintaining the poem's meter. "o'er" "ne'er"
What is syncope?
Mourns a death.
What is an elegy?
The author of Ethics.
Who is Linda Pastan?
Six pillars.
How many pillars are in front Sam Phil?