Elements of Poetry (3)
What is a free verse poetry?
Poetry that does not have a rhyme scheme or a consistent metrical pattern.
What type of metrical meter is this?
Thus I
Pass by
And die,
As one,
Unknown
And gone.
monometer
What are the three types of irony?
Situational Irony, Verbal Irony, Dramatic Irony
What type of figurative language is this?
The oranges and Clementine are gorgeous.
Personification
What type of diction is this?:
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
Abstract diction
Identify the stressed part of this word:
Complete
Compete
What is a collection of metrical lines called?
True or False?
Sarcasm is verbal irony.
False, Sarcasm is a type of verbal irony.
How are simile and metaphor different?
Simile uses "like" or "as".
What type of diction is this?:
“She’s fixin’ to go to the store sometime soon.”
Colloquial diction
What is the unstressed part of this word:
Baseball
Baseball
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate;
The first one said,
"Oh, my it's getting late."
The second one said
There are witches in the air."
The third one said,
"But I don't care."
The fourth one said
"I'm ready for some fun
The fifth one said
"Let's run and run and run."
"W000000000" went the wind,
And out went the lights.
And the five little pumpkins
rolled out of sight.
ABABCBCBDBDBEFG
What type of figurative language is this?:
One passenger described the plane crash as "rather unsettling".
A. Understatement
B. Metonymy
C. Synecdoche
D. Overstatement
A. Understatement
What is the tone of this passage?
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
A. Urgent
B. Anxious
C. Worried
D. Disquiet
A. Urgent
What is allusion?
An indirect reference to something.
The first 8 lines in Petrarchan sonnets that follows a rhyme scheme are called:
Octaves
What type of Poem is this?
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,
She married. O most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not nor it cannot come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
A Blank Verse
What form of figurative language is this?
The grass was green the water was crystal clear and the birds were chirping, it was the sunniest day ever.
Alliteration
What does syntax mean?
The proper order of words in a phrase or sentence
Is this an example of allusion?
“…That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles
and my daddy said ‘Stay away from Juliet‘…”
Yes, there was a slight reference to Shakespeare's play(Romeo and Juliet)
Is this a iambic pentameter?
“to be, or not to be, that is the question”- Shakespeare
No, there are 11 syllables
What does Petrarchan sonnets usually write about?
Love
What form of figurative language is this?:
lend me a hand
an idiom
Give one meaningful example of syntax using the words:
You are afraid.
EX: The boy eats a cookie -> Eats the boy a cookie.
Afraid, you are.
Is allusion and simile the same?
No.
They have different purposes. An allusion is a brief mention of a person, place or event. A simile comparing similar qualities between two different things.