American Poets
This American poet lived a very private life. In her seclusion, she wrote about 1,800 poems.
Who was Emily Dickinson?
Unlike a metaphor, this literary device draws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This word is used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things.
What is a noun?
He wrote the famous poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" while he was on a train crossing the Mississippi River.
Who was Langston Hughes?
To imbue objects with a certain meaning that is different from their original meaning or function.
What is symbolism?
This word is used to describe an action, state, or occurrence.
What is a verb?
This Swedish-American poet publish the poem "Chicago" in 1914.
Who is Carl Sandburg?
This is a popular literary device in which the repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs.
What is rhyme?
This is a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
What is an adjective?
He wrote “O Captain, My Captain!” after reflecting on the American experience in the Civil War.
Who was Walt Whitman?
This is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem.
What is meter?
This is a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective or verb.
What is an adverb?
“The Road Not Taken” is one of this poet's most frequently cited poems.
Who is Robert Frost?
This is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
What is allusion?
This a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause.
What is a preposition?