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Wordy Word Play
Rhythm is a Dancer
Who Are You?
Walls and Stairs
100
To create predictions about the poem.
What is the purpose of Title?
100
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely related words.
What is Alliteration?
100
The use of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is Meter?
100
A three line poem of seventeen syllables. Each line is broken up into syllables of five-seven-five.
What is a Haiku?
100
A woman recounts her days as a young child. Her mother is abused by her father, and on the fourth of July, the mother burns down the house.
What is the paraphrase of "Independence Day"?
200
Figurative language, deeper meaning behind text.
What is Connotation?
200
Repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry.
What is Consonance?
200
A foot in poetic meter. It has three syllables--one stressed and two unstressed.
What is a Dactyl?
200
A five line poem that follows these rules: 1) Noun 2) Two adjectives 3) Three Verbs ending in -ing 4) Four word phrase 5) Synonym
What is a Cinquain?
200
The poem has an informative and casual tone, but it shifts to curious, primarily when the speaker questions tradition and society.
What is the attitude of "Mending Wall"?
300
Speaker's attitude towards the audience.
What is Attitude?
300
Repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
What is Assonance?
300
A metrical foot of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is a Trochee?
300
Poems with specific rules
What is Fixed-Form Poetry?
300
An Elizabethan sonnet where the speaker compares his love to Summer
What is "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"?
400
A change in tone or style. One can find this in sonnets.
What is Shift?
400
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
What is Alliteration?
400
A metrical foot of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is an Iamb?
400
A poem of fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme
What is a Sonnet?
400
A horse cautions its owner to proceed through the woods, which is an extended metaphor for life.
What is "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
500
Universal Idea
What is Theme?
500
Dog, Log, Bog, Cog
What is Assonance?
500
Each line of poetry has ten syllables, and each foot is unstressed and stressed.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
500
ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG
What is Elizabethan Sonnet rhyme scheme?
500
Speaker describes life as a winding, broken down staircase.
What is "Mother to Son"?