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Poetry
Poetic Devices
Poets
Poetry Styles
Mixed Bag
100
A unit of lines in a poem like a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
100
A word in which its sound is also it's meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
This poet poignantly explored an adolescent boy's first date.
Who is Gary Soto?
100
An ancient Japanese form of poetry that relies on syllables and symbolism.
What is haiku?
100
These words both use this root which means "all": Pandemonium and Panacea.
What is "pan"?
200
Two "R" ways that a poet is able to create "sound" in a poem.
What is rhyme and rhythm?
200
"The sky cried as though it had lost a loved one," is an example.
What is personification?
200
"Good fences make good neighbors" is a refrain in this poem by Robert Frost.
What is a repeated phrase in "Mending Wall"?
200
A form of poetry that doesn't have a consistent pattern of either rhyme or rhythm.
What is free verse?
200
The four part definition of a verb.
What is the core meaning of a sentence, a word that shows when something is occurring, has the ability to change form, and can be more than one word?
300
Referring to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in a work of poetry is an example.
What is an allusion?
300
Dylan Thomas use of Dark and Night to refer to Death.
What is ambiguity?
300
Poetry can explore a poet's personal experiences to enhance an broader understanding of culture.
What is "Hawai`i Pono`i" by Puanani Burgess?
300
"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost is an example of this style of poetry.
What is blank verse?
300
A word that uses the root "Tenuo" which means "to make thin."
What is tenuous?
400
The repetition of initial consonant sounds, consonant sounds anywhere in words and vowel sounds in poetry.
What are alliteration, consonance and assonance?
400
Bittersweet.
What is an example of an oxymoron?
400
Oh Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman was written as a tribute to what American President?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
The poem that we read was known as a dirge.
What is "Oh Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman?
400
What word best completes the sentence: When you don't study for a test, you _____ any success for your score.
What is preclude?
500
Also known as "feet."
What is a single unit of a stressed and unstressed syllable in metered poetry?
500
An outrageous exaggeration!
What is a hyperbole.
500
"Because their words forked no lightening," is from this poem that examines life nearing death.
What is Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas?
500
A poetic style that is nineteen lines, contains only two rhymes throughout and is six stanzas - 5 of three lines and 1 of 4.
What is a villanelle?
500
The three simplest forms of verb tense.
What is present, past and future?