When the end of a sentence, clause or other syntactic unit coincides with the the end of the line.
What is end-stopped?
100
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records---Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn't make me NOT like
the same things other folks like who are other races.
What is:
alliteration
allusion
repetition
100
"Porphyria's Lover"
Who is Robert Browning?
100
Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
What is "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman?
200
The author of Holy Sonnet 14
Who is John Donne?
200
A lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
200
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
What is:
alliteration
assonance
repetition
internal rhyme
masculine rhyme
enjambment
200
"The House was Quiet and the World was Calm"
Who is Wallace Stevens?
200
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
What is Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare?
300
The author of "Adam's Curse"
Who is W.B. Yeats
300
Groupings of the verse lines in a poem, often set off by a space in the printed text. Uniform in number and lengths of the component lines.
What is a stanza?
300
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.
What is:
mixed rhyme
couplet
personification
alliteration
300
"Theme for English B"
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
What is "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop?
400
The author of "One Art"
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
400
Figure of speech which establishes a striking parallel between two very dissimilar things of situations. Usually very ingenious or elaborate.
What is conceit? (Will accept metaphysical conceit)
400
Thy various works, imperial queen, we see,
How bright their forms! how deck'd with pomp by thee!
Thy wond'rous acts in beauteous order stand,
And all attest how potent is thine hand.
What is:
apostrophe
masculine rhyme
400
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
Who is William Carlos Williams?
400
Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
What is Holy Sonnet 14 by John Donne?
500
The author of "Spring and Fall" (to a young child)
Who is Gerard Manley Hopkins?
500
The deliberate repetition of words or a phrase at the beginning of each one of a sequence of sentences, paragraphs, lines or verse or stanzas.
What is anaphora?
500
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
What is:
masculine rhyme
mixed rhyme
allusion
anaphora
500
"Lines" or "Tintern Abbey"
Who is William Wordsworth?
500
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.