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Vocabulary
100
The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning, as in jangle and knells.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Playwright, he wrote "The Seven Ages of Man" and "Sonnet 30."
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
This type of poem always contains 14 lines of iambic pentameter and can be either Italian or English.
What is sonnet?
100
Poems without a regular meter or rhyme scheme are called this.
What is free verse?
100
The definition of deferred.
What is put off until a future time?
200
This kind of poetry tells a story and contains a plot, characters, and setting.
What is narrative?
200
New Englander, she wrote many poems we've studied, including "'Hope' is the thing with feathers-"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
200
These are two of the different kinds of bells in described in the poem "The Bells."
What is silver (sleigh), golden (wedding), bronze (fire alarm), iron (funeral)?
200
Lewis Carroll wrote a poem about a boy going out to kill this animal.
What is the Jabberwock?
200
Which of these words means "become infected, form pus": abash, fester, jibe?
What is fester
300
The repetition of words that end with similar sounds but do not rhyme perfectly, as in end and stand.
What is slant rhyme?
300
A great American author, he wrote "The Raven."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
This line from "Dream Deferred" contains this type of imaginative comparison: "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
What is simile?
300
This is the surprise ending of the famous narrative poem, "Casey at the Bat."
What is "mighty Casey has struck out"?
300
Which of these means "branched out in different directions": bafflement, treble, or diverged?
What is diverged?
400
A statement, an idea, or a situation that seems contradictory but actually expresses a truth
What is paradox?
400
Driving force in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, he's the author of "Dreams" and "Dream Deferred."
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
"The Raven" visits the author after the has lost his love named this.
What is Lenore?
400
This quote from "Slam, Dunk, and Hook" contains an example of this sound device: "slapping a blackjack."
What is assonance (slApping a blAckjAck)?
400
This is the definition of "warp."
What is twist, distort?
500
These are two forms of lyric poetry we read in this unit.
What is sonnet, haiku, free verse?
500
Poet laureate who recited at John F. Kennedy's inauguration, he's the author of "The Road Less Traveled."
Who is Robert Frost?
500
Haiku have this number of syllables per line.
What is five, seven, five?
500
This line is repeated in T.S. Eliot's poem "Macavity: the Mystery Cat."
What is "Macavity's not there!"?
500
This vocabulary word means full or sorrow.
What is "woeful"?