Poetic Techniques
A comparison between two things stating one is the other.
What is a metaphor?
The state William Carlos Williams was from.
Where is New Jersey?
The term for a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The main natural feature of Paterson, New Jersey, William Carlos Williams draws on in his long poem Paterson.
What is a waterfall?
The most popular Thanksgiving pie flavour.
What is pumpkin?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
William Carlos Williams' primary job.
What is enjambment?
The main metaphor in Whitman's 'O Me! O Life!'
What is life as a play?
The very first American president.
What is George Washington?
What is personification?
The style of poetry Walt Whitman is known as the father of.
What is free-verse poetry?
A theme running through Whitman's poetry that has to do with equality, diversity, and giving power to citizens.
What is democracy?
Whitman's well-known collection of poetry that contains 'O Me! O Life!'
What is Leaves of Grass?
The state I am from.
Where is Kansas?
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
The city where Walt Whitman spent most of his life.
Where is New York City?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of lines.
What is anaphora?
Williams' poem 'Perfection' is about this kind of apple.
What is rotten?
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.
What is assonance?
The Irish writer who inspired Williams to focus on his own local area.
Who is James Joyce?
The word for the everyday language of the people in a particular region that we discussed in relation to Williams.
What is vernacular?
What the red wheelbarrow is beside in Williams' 'The Red Wheelbarrow' poem.
What are white chickens?
The state Chappell Roan is from.
Where is Missouri?