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FAMOUS POETS
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A traditional form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables.
What is haiku?
100
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor.
What is hyperbole?
100
"In the twilight rain
these brilliant-hued hibiscus -
A lovely sunset"
- Matsuo Bashō
What is haiku?
100
Often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon," this poet and playwright wrote many famous sonnets, almost always in iambic pentameter.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
200
A lyric poem of fourteen lines, typically written in iambic pentameter following strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme.
What is a sonnet?
200
The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."
(The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe)
What is internal rhyme? (Will also accept trochaic octameter or repetition)
200
This poet wrote "Annabel Lee," his last poem ever completed. There has been debate over who, if anyone, was the inspiration for "Annabel Lee". Though many women have been suggested, his then late wife is one of the more credible candidates.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
A comparison that shows similarities between two things that are dissimilar.
What is an analogy?
300
Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, stanza.
What is free verse?
300
The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a poem, speech or other piece of writing.
What is repetition?
300
“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”
(John Keats’ “To the Autumn”)
What is imagery?
300
This poet wrote the very famous "O Captain! My Captain!" which is an extended metaphor and elegy about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln. Leaves of Grass is his most famous collection of poetry.
Who is Walt Whitman?
300
A four line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
400
A long, serious lyric poem that is elevated in tone and style. This type of poetry comes in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
What is an ode?
400
There are five basic kinds of this...

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Pattern Name Example
– / iamb/iambic invite
/ – trochee/trochaic deadline
– – / anapest/anapestic to the beach
/ – – dactyl/dactylic frequently
/ / spondee/spondaic true blue
What is rhythm?
400
“Up the aisle, the moans and screams merged with the
sickening smell of woolen black clothes worn in summer
weather and green leaves wilting over yellow flowers.”
(Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”)
What is alliteration?
400
This American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
Used often in poetry, this is any person, animal, place, object, or event that exists on a literal level within a work but also represent something on a figurative level.
What is a symbol?
500
Short composition that uses rhythm, imagery, and other poetic devices to express an idea or emotion.
What is prose poetry?
500
Any figure of speech that was once clever and original but through overuse has become outdated. If you’ve heard more than two or three other people say it more than two or three times, chances are the phrase is too timeworn to be useful in your writing.
What is cliché?
500
“Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveler’s journey is done;”
(William Blake's "Ah Sunflower")
What is symbolism? (Will also accept personification)

The Sunflower is obviously not just a plant, but, of what is it a symbol - a "fallen" human, or persistent love, or frustrated love, or lost innocence, or corrupted love, or poetic imagination, or spiritual yearning, or all of these?
500
His name was usually never capitalized, and he wrote some unconventional poetry. He is also known for controversial subject matter, as he has a large collection of erotic poetry.

Here is an example of one of his poems:

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
Who is e. e. cummings?
500
Suggested or implied meanings associated with a word beyond its literal meaning.
What is connotation?