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The Name Game
You Write, Right?
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Whose Line is it Anyway?
Figure Skating
100
A poem by William Carlos Williams.
What is "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
100
The author of "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginnings of words.
What is alliteration?
100
A line that ends with the end of grammatical unit.
What is an end-stopped line?
100
The opposite of literal language; language that means more than it says.
What is figurative language?
200
A poem by Walt Whitman.
What is "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"?
200
The author of "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Who is Robert Frost?
200
Rhymes that occur within a line of poetry.
What are internal rhymes?
200
A group of lines set off from other groups of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
300
A poem by e.e. cummings.
What is "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
300
The author of "Harlem."
Who in Langston Hughes?
300
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A line that ends in the middle of a grammatical unit.
What is an enjambed line?
300
A type of metaphorical comparison in which inanimate objects are invested with human properties.
What is personification?
400
A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
What is Ozymandias?
400
The author of "London."
Who is William Blake?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds between words.
What is assonance?
400
The order of words in a sentence.
What is syntax?
400
A way of speaking that suggests a discrepancy between one thing and another, for instance what is said and what is meant.
What is irony?
500
A poem by W.B. Yeats.
What is "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?
500
The author of "Facing It."
Who is Yusef Komunyakaa?
500
Words that nearly rhyme but don't. They often occur when the vowel in one word is short and in the other word long.
What are slant rhymes?
500
A pause in the middle of a line.
What is a caesura?
500
When an object stands for something beyond itself, perhaps for a feeling or idea.
What is a symbol?