Vocabulary
This sonnet form is also called Petrarchan in honor of the poet Petrarch (1304-74). It includes an octave plus a sestet often with abbaabba cdecde or abbacddc defdef rhyme schemes.
What is an Italian Sonnet?
What is Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"?
This is the technique of listening to and marking poetic stressed and unstressed syllables, counting syllables and feet.
What is scansion?
Dr. Vivian Bearing is a professor of which metaphysical poet?
Who is John Donne?
This poet makes ample use of slant rhyme.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This term describes extending the end of the grammatical sentence beyond the end of the poetic line.
What is enjambment?
He is author of a dramatic monologue about a Duke who uses a painting of his late wife as a conversation piece.
Who is Robert Browning?
This poetic form is most like everyday human speech in English; it consists of unrhymed iambic pentameter; many of Shakespeare's plays are written in this poetic form.
What is blank verse?
This character in Edson's Wit provides essential human care, acting as the antithesis of the sterile, dehumanizing clinical hospital environment.
Who is Susie Monahan?
This term describes 7 metrical feet.
What is heptameter?
What term describes a poem's word choice?
What is diction?
This poem ends with these three lines: "Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests. / I’ll dig with it."
What is "Digging" (by Seamus Heaney)
This meter consists of a quatrain that rhymes ABAB and alternates 4-stress and 3-stress iambic lines. It is the meter of hymns and the ballad.
What is common meter?
These are the italicized descriptions of set, characters, and actions of a play.
What are stage directions?
An unstressed or unaccented syllable followed by a stressed or accented one
What is an iamb?
The bolded words in the following Emily Dickinson's poem "Much Madness" illustrate this poetic term.
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you're straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -
What is alliteration?
This poem graphically describes the use of gas in WWII.
What is "Dulce et decorum est"?
The following describes which metrical foot?
Two stressed syllables; these feet vary or interrupt the prevailing rhythm, emphasizing a syllable that we would expect to be unstressed
What is a spondee?
This character is Vivian's mentor figure that arrives in her final moments to teach her about kindness.
Who is E.M. Ashford?
This author wrote these lines (name author and title):
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
What is W.B. Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?
The highlighted portions of William Blake's 1794 poem "The Tyger" illustrate this poetic term:
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
This poem concludes with "or does it explode?"
What is "Harlem" (by Langston Hughes)?
The following describes which metrical foot?
A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones
What is a dactyl?
This is the definition of soporific.
What is tending to induce drowsiness or sleepiness?
Scan the following lines for meter (feet type and number of feet):
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
What is iambic pentameter?