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A poem that expresses mourning
What is an elegy
100
"You can't order a poem like you order a taco."
What is "Valentine for Ernest Mann"
100
A rhyme occurring within a line
What is internal rhyme
100
The use of words that mimic the sound they describe
What is onomatopoeia
100
The subject of the elegy entitled "O Captain! My Captain!"
What is Abraham Lincoln
200
A poem that celebrates, in elegant language, a person or thing
What is an ode
200
"A hurry of hoofs in a village street...Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet."
What is "Paul Revere's Ride"
200
Poetry written without meter and regular rhyme scheme
What is free verse
200
The repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words
What is consonance
200
An epic tale about a brave warrior
What is Beowulf
300
A poem that tells the feelings of the speaker but does not tell a story
What is a lyric
300
"Then from the gladdened multitude went up a joyous yell"
What is "Casey at the Bat"
300
"All," "call," and "ball" are examples of this.
What is exact rhyme.
300
A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300
An ode written by Pablo Neruda praising an everyday object
What is "Ode to my Socks"
400
A long narrative poem about a hero
What is an epic
400
"In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load."
What is "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
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Two consecutive rhyming lines.
What is a couplet.
400
A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings
What is a pun
400
The author of "Paul Revere's Ride"
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
500
A poem with repetition and a songlike quality
What is a ballad
500
"Or maybe a tapestry know to far distant peoples"
What is "Ode to Thanks"
500
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is meter
500
A pair of opposite terms in a single unusual expression
What is oxymoron
500
The fact that Casey strikes out at the end of "Casey at the Bat" would be considered
What is ironic