Poetry written without concern for regular rhyme scheme and meter
What is free verse
100
The rhythm established by a poem
What is meter?
100
Word that corresponds with another in ending sound entirely
What is rhyme
100
The rhyme scheme for the following poem:
I never saw a Moor-
I never saw the Sea-
Yet I know how a Heather looks
and what a Billow Be
I Never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven-
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the checks were given
What is ABCB DEFE?
100
The number of poems that were published during Emily's Life
What is 7?
200
Basic unit of meter in poetry
What is foot
200
A summary of he content of the poem in prose (written in three-four sentences)
What is precis
200
figurative language that endows animals, ideas, etc. with human form, character or sensibility
What is personification
200
The proper rhythm and meter for the following line:
This is my letter to the world
What is Iambic Tetrameter?
200
An honorary label given to Whitman that still exists today
What is America's greatest poet?
300
The repetition of identical consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
300
The repetition of similarly constructed phrases, clauses or sentences
What is parallelism?
300
Literature in metrical form (a.k.a. a line of poetry)
What is verse
300
The proper rhythm and meter for the following line:
That never wrote to me
What is Iambic Trimeter?
300
Where Emily spent most of her time, especially during the last ten years of it
What is her home?
400
rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical
What is slant rhyme?
400
The use of words in writing
What is diction?
400
A unit of lines within a larger poem
What is stanza
400
The proper rhythm and meter for the following lines:
Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair verona, where we lay our scene
What is iambic pentameter?
400
The President Whitman was most fond of
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
five feet in a line of poetry
What is pentameter?
500
The analysis of a poems rhythm
What is scansion
500
How a sentence is strung together
What is syntax
500
The seven parts of SPOTTTS Analysis
Subject
Paraphrase
Occasion
Title
Tone
Theme
Speaker