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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Langston Hughes
Robert Frost
Haiku
Poetry devices
100
Became the first this:
Black American Poet
100
Honored by being the first this:
Black American Poet
100
Most of his writing is about this kind of life
Rural
100
Haiku is known as being from here
Japan
100
The dictionary definition of a word
denotation
200
Grew up in this town
Dayton, Ohio
200
Would often include these musical elements
Jazz
200
Most of Frost's poetry would be categorized by this style
Pastoral
200
Haiku must follow this type of syllabication pattern
5, 7, 5
200
Personal definition of a word
Conotation
300
First job out of high school was this
Elevator operator
300
Published his first collection of poetry titled this
The Weary Blues
300
The poetry form he hated, because he thought it lacked structure, was this
Free verse
300
Haiku includes nature so that
It captures a moment in time
300
Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
400
Was classmates with these brothers
The Wright Brothers
400
Hughes is often said to use rhythm, or patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables called this
Mete
400
Frost is the recipient of four of these
Pulitzer Prizes
400
Haiku cannot use the following
Figurative language, first person or other verb tenses besides present
400
Repetition of consonant sounds
Consonance
500
Often his poetry has a mood of sorrow, mood is this.
How the poem makes the reader feel.
500
Hughes used a certain number of beats per line to achieve his musical quality, called this
Syllabication
500
Frost's first collection of poetry was titled this
A Boy's Will
500
Haiku was created by these two men
Basho and Shiki
500
Poetry that follows rules
Conventional