Poetic Techniques
A comparison between two things stating one as the other.
What is a metaphor?
The war Wilfred Owen fought in and wrote about.
What is World War 1?
The term for a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The action described in 'Dulce et Decorum Est' focuses on this kind of attack.
What is a gas attack?
The most popular Thanksgiving pie flavour?
What is pumpkin?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word.
What is alliteration?
The country Wilfred Owen was from.
Where is England?
The term for the dug-out spaces in the ground where most of the fighting took place in WWI.
What are trenches?
The tile of the last Frost poem we studied ('Stopping by Woods on a ______ Evening')
What is Snowy?
The very first American president?
Who is George Washington?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Other than a poet, Robert Frost's two jobs.
What are farmer and teacher?
The meaning of 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
What is 'It is sweet and honourable to die for one's country'?
The colour of the wood in the first line of Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' ('Two roads diverged in a ______ wood').
What is yellow?
Where is Kansas?
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken seriously.
What is hyperbole?
The name of the poet who wrote 'Base Details'
Who is Siegfried Sassoon?
A type of poetry formed from words and phrases of existing poems (we made some from Frost's poems).
What is found poetry?
The Biblical allusion in Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
What is the Garden of Eden?
The NFL team Travis Kelce plays for.
Who are the Kansas City Chiefs?
The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other.
The area of the U.S. where Robert Frost spent most of his life.
Where is New England?
Ordinary or familiar language, not formal or literary (a characteristic of Frost's poetry).
What is colloquial language?
The length of time nature's early leaf is a flower in Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
The state Chappell Roan is from.
Where is Missouri?