Poetry Terms
How the author arranges the rhyming words or phrase, which line rhyme with which line, expressed as a letter (example: ABAB)
What is Rhyme Scheme?
One of the themes of this poem is that brooding over lost love can make you crazy.
What is "the Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe?
"My love is like a red, red rose" is an example of what literary device?
What is a Simile?
Shakespeare wrote 154 of this type of poems that have 14 lines with 10 beats per line.
In "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman he is compared to a dead sea captain.
Who is Abe Lincoln?
The number of syllables or beats per line
What is Meter?
One of the themes in this poem is, growing old sucks – enjoy your youth while you can.
What is "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick
"My heart’s a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close" is an example of what literary device?
What is a Metaphor?
This is what we call the rhyme scheme of the final two lines of a sonnet.
What is a rhyming couplet?
This author's wife suffered and died from tuberculosis at a young age.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A paragraph of a poem
What is a Stanza?
One of the themes of this poem is: Feeling sorry for yourself does not improve your life, only action can make things better.
What is "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson?
"Annie awesome alligators are always angry" is an example of what literary device?
What is an Alliteration?
These are the Seven Ages of Man.
What is infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, judge, an old fool, second childhood/death?
In the movie, "Dead Poets' Society", the students stand on the desk as recite this poem.
What is "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman.
A rhyme that occurs at the ends of the lines of poetry
What is an External Rhyme?
One of the themes of this poem by W.H. Auden, is that some things happen for which we cannot see the reasons.
What is "Elegy for J.F.K."?
"Once upon a midnight dreary. While I pondered, weak and weary"
is an example of this type of rhyme scheme.
What is an Internal Rhyme?
"The Seven Ages of Man" was taken from this play.
What is "As you Like It"?
"Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun."
is an example of this literary device.
What is hyperbole?
A rhyme that is close to a perfect rhyme but not quite
What is a Slant Rhyme?
This poem implies that soldiers seeking glory on the battlefield is pointless. Reputations are thin, delicate, and really nothing more than air.
What is "Seven Ages of Man" by Shakespeare
"Just prayed to a God I don’t believe in" is an example of this literary device.
What is paradox?
This is a line of verse with five metrical feet (beats or syllables), each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example "Two households, both alike in dignity".
What is iambic pentameter?
The four extended metaphors from "O Captain, My Captain" mean: the bitter war, the abolition of slavery, and the nation.
What do the metaphors, "our fearful trip", "the prize", and "the vessel" mean in Whitman's poem?