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POEMS
100
two consecutively rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
100
storytelling where rhythm helps
What is narrative poetry?
100
a civil war poet
Who is Walt Whitman?
100
the American Revolution
What is "Paul Revere's Ride"?
100
"the poetry of the earth is never dead"
What is "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"?
200
using words that are similar, but not exactly the same
What is approximate rhyme?
200
exultation on a specific subject
What is an ode?
200
poet that embraced all aspects of his country and its people
Who is Walt Whitman?
200
a strange death
What is "The Cremation of Sam McGee"?
200
the use of exaggeration and elevated language for a humourus purpose
What is mock epic?
300
sounds occuring in a particular pattern
What is meter?
300
recounts the exploits of a "great one"
What is epic poem?
300
his poetry reflects this author's childhood
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
poems are found in what our lives give us
What is "A Valentine for Ernest Mann"?
300
the use of a variety of poetic devices
What is free verse?
400
"the shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench" is an example of...
What is alliteration?
400
a poem that follows strict rules of writing
What is sonnet?
400
readers hated his poems because their untraditional style
Who is Walt Whitman
400
always eating in the kitchen
What is "I, Too"?
400
poetry written on the topics of love, betrayal, or death
What is elegy?
500
five sets of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
500
commenting on a subject rather than telling a story
What is lyric poetry?
500
inspired by Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
"toads have places to go, too"
What is "Birdfoot's Grampa"?
500
a question & answer poem
What is Italian sonnet?