This kind of poetry occurs when the poet allows the ideas to drive the line breaks and the end of each stanza.
What is free verse poetry?
100
Mad Dog
Like a great yellow dog, the sun
laps up the water in the creeks,
and his hot panting breath curls the corn
and sears the pasture brown.
He runs wild through the dry summer
as if no master could whistle him back
or drive him to cover
in a kennel of clouds.
This poem by James Hears provides an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is an extended metaphor?
100
This is the structure of the writing--the way in which poetry differs from prose or short stories.
What is form?
100
"While I nodding, nearly
napping, suddenly there
came a tapping. . ."
Edgar Allan Poe's famous lines from "The Raven" express an example of this sound device.
What is alliteration?
100
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright -
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.
Lewis Carroll uses this poetic element in his poetry.
What is imagery?
200
This kind of poetry uses the form of 5-7-5 (the number of syllables in each line).
What is haiku?
200
Provide an example of Personification.
Personification!!!
200
This is the "voice" of a poem and is separate from the poet.
What is the speaker?
200
This is the pattern that end rhyming words follow. To identify this, a reader should assign a letter (a, b, c, etc.) to each new rhyme in the poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
200
The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Provide examples of imagery from this poem. What senses are being used?
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300
Lines 1, 2, and 5 of this type of poem have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other. This kind of poetry also tends to be humorous or nonsensical.
What is limerick?
300
“Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.”
This poem uses this kind of figurative language.
What is simile?
300
All poems are made up of these. They may consist of only one word or may a whole sentence.
What are lines?
300
This is a regular pattern of rhythm and consists of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.
What is meter?
300
Dinnertime Chorus
The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!
This poem provides wonderful examples of this poetic device.
What is personification?
400
This kind of poem consists of five unrhymed lines.
Each line has a set number of syllables see below:
Line 1: 2 syllables
Line 2: 4 syllables
Line 3: 6 syllables
Line 4: 8 syllables
Line 5: 2 syllables
What is a cinquain?
400
"Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,"
In Emily Dickenson's poem, she uses this figurative language. What is she comparing?
What is metaphor?
400
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
In this excerpt from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" there is a clear example of this sound device.
What is repetition?
400
"My love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June :
My love is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune."
In this excerpt from Burns' "A Red, Red Rose" the reader sees this kind of figurative language repeated.
What is simile?
500
Bike
Shiny, quiet,
Pedaling, spinning, weaving
Whizzing round corners, zooming along roads
Racing, roaring, speeding
Fast, loud,
Car
This is an example of what kind of poetry?
What is diamante?
500
Please provide the different between similes and metaphors.
Similes compare two things using like or as while metaphors compare two things not using like or as.
500
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is an example of this form of poetry.
What is traditional form?
500
"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek for Eldorado!"
This excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "Eldorado" exemplifies the repetition of vowel sounds and this kind of sound device.
What is assonance?
500
Rhythm consists of _______ and ________ syllables.