Poetic Devices
"Hope is the thing with feathers."
What is metaphor
Grew up in Mississippi, writing about Hurricane Katrina
Who is Jesmyn Ward?
Which essay comes first?
What is the poetry essay?
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Who is Shakespeare?
Rachel ran right until she realized she was running round and round.
What is alliteration?
“The wind whispered through the trees.”
What is personification?
Was convicted of "gross indecency"
Who is Oscar Wilde?
The number of passages on the multiple choice section
What is 5?
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
Who is Emily Dickinson?
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times."
What is hyperbole?
“The bees buzz busily.”
What is onomatopoeia?
Was married to Marilyn Monroe
Who is Arthur Miller?
The literary argument essay is also called this
What is the open essay?
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
Who is Robert Hayden?
jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly, bitter-sweet
What is oxymoron?
“He was a real Romeo.”
What is allusion?
Was a civil rights activist, who called MLK and Malcolm X his contemporaries
Who is James Baldwin?
Each essay is graded out of 6, with the most points for this section (2 different criteria)
What is evidence and commentary?
The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn,
the arms and hands and feet and lovely face
Who is Petrarch?
The Illiad and The Odyssey are examples of this type of poem.
What is epic?
We real cool. We
Left school. We
What is enjambment?
"We Real Cool" poet
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
What rapper is in the first film we will watch after the exam?
Who is Queen Latifah?
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.
Who is Shelley?
Bernard, Macduff, and Charlie are examples of this.
What is a foil?