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Kinds of Poetry
Poetry Terms
Freytag & Stories
The Hero's Journey
The Fool of the World
100
Has five lines, an AABBA rhyme structure and is often bawdy (or kind of dirty)
What is a Limerick
100
Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Concord Hymn"
What is Hyperbole?
100
The Turning Point in the story.
What is Climax
100
Harry Potter starts receiving letters from Hogwarts, before finally encountering Hagrid.
What is The Call to Adventure?
100
This was the first traveller that Pyotr brought aboard the Flying Ship.
Who is Sharp Shooter, the archer?
200
Originated in Japan, is a 3-line poem about nature, and has a 5-7-5 syllable structure.
What is a Haiku?
200
Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud. Christina Rossetti 1830-1894
What is simile?
200
This leads us from the Inciting Incident to the Climax of the story - the protagonist encounters obstacles and antagonists.
What is Rising Action
200
Harry Potter first steps into Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross station, and boards the Hogwarts Express.
What is Crossing the Threshold?
200
According to Freytag, what would the scene be called, when Pyotr meets the wise old man and receives the Flying Ship?
What is the Inciting Incident?
300
A Type of Poem written in praise of, or dedicated to, someone or something which captures the poet's interest.
What is an Ode.
300
Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go. -All The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
What is Anaphora, or Repetition?
300
One of Seven Classic Conflicts in literature; an example of which is how Sam McGee dies in Alaska. In the book, The Life of Pi, Pi must face the danger of being alone in the vast ocean, with a orangutan, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, and a Royal Bengal Tiger, named Richard Parker.
What is Person v. Nature?
300
This is the part of the Hero's Journey when the protagonists meets someone who can help guide him or her. For Bilbo and Frodo, it was Gandalf. For Harry Potter, it was Dumbledore. For Katniss, it is Haymitch.
What is the Mentor?
300
The Chamberlain and the Czar, set out three tasks for Pyotr and the travelers. Who saved their lives in the 2nd?
Who is The Farmer with the Siberian Straw?
400
A type of poem that uses the letters of a word or name for the first letter of each line.
What is an Acrostic Poem
400
The springtime of Lovers has come, that this dust bowl may become a garden; the proclamation of heaven has come, that the bird of the soul may rise in flight. The sea becomes full of pearls, the salt marsh becomes sweet as kauthar, the stone becomes a ruby from the mine, the body becomes wholly soul. -The Springtime of Lover's has Come Rumi
What is couplets?
400
This stage of Freytag gives us the Background information of the story, including setting, a hint about the conflict and concludes with the inciting incident.
What is Exposition?
400
When Lucy, daughter of Eve, approaches the White Witch's Palace. When Harry enters the chamber underneath the school where Quirrell/Voldemort has the Mirror of Erised. When Bilbo enters the dragon, Smaug's, lair.
What is Approaching the Innermost Cave?
400
What was the 3rd demand that Lightening gave the Tsar?
What is "Serve you with all our powers"?
500
A form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.
What is Free Verse
500
The Gastronomic Gym Pasta twirling and spinning, peas do vertical jumps mashed potatoes swimming. meat doing bench press and pumps. Food has begun to exercise but it’s not in any gym. My brother said its happening right inside of him. -The Gastronomic Gym by Sharon Hendricks
What is personification?
500
After reading the plays of this Englishman, Gustav Freytag realized that each had a 5-act structure that told the story. Most stories today have this same structure. Who was the Englishman?
Who is William Shakespeare?
500
When Nemo's apparent death forces him to be flushed out into the ocean, where he meets up with his distraught father again, and the pair are reunited. When Sully's activities force the closure of Monsters Inc, the loss of everyone's jobs, and add to the already critical power shortages in Monstropolis. However he realizes that laughter unleashes more power than screaming, so Monsters Inc. is born anew. After Pinocchio washes up on the beach after being swallowed by the whale, he appears dead, but is brought back to life by the Blue Fairy and becomes a real boy as a reward for his bravery.
What is "Resurrection"?
500
What would Freytag call the moment at the end of the film, when we see Pyotr with his family and his brothers, and we see everyone's lives have changed as a result of the story.
What is the Denouement?