Poetry Terms
What is the name of a 4-line stanza?
Quatrain
What do we call the coordinated pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of a line pf poetry?
Rhyme Scheme
Who wrote "Daybreak in Alabama"?
Langston Hughes
The Harlem Renaissance took place primarily during ...?
1920's-1930's
A common theme in poetry, "Carpe Diem" means to...?
Seize The Day
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is called...?
Meter
A poem that does NOT have a regular rhyme or rhythm
Free Verse
Which pastoral era poet wrote "Lines Written in The Early Spring"?
William Wordsworth
In both their writing and their personal lives, what did many Harlem Renaissance poets focus on?
The Civil Rights Movement
What is the main difference between similes and metaphors?
Similes compare things using like or as, metaphors do not.
A "fanciful poetic image" is called...?
Conceit
A hyperbole is a/an...
exaggeration
Which Victorian poet wrote "In Memoriam"? Hint: He is Ms. Whitesel's favorite poet
Alfred Tennyson
Pastoral poetry talks a lot about what?
Nature/farms/simple life
The purpose of using imagery in our writing is to...?
Show, not tell.
A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter is considered a ...?
Sonnet
A two-line stanza is called a...
couplet
This poet wrote In America but was born overseas
Phillis Wheatley
Victorian poetry is often also referred to as what?
Romantic Poetry
Words like "Boom", "Crash" or "Meow" are examples of what...?
Onomatopoeia
We refer to language with no rhythmical structure as what?
Prose
A "paragraph" in a poem is called a what?
Stanza
Which TWO poets from the Harlem Renaissance did we go over?
Langston Hughes & James Weldon Johnson
Why was rural life so romanticized during the pastoral era?
The cities were dirty
"The tree danced in the wind" is an example of what
Personification