Kinds of Poetry
What is free verse?
a comparison between two items without "like" or "as":
"the eye of heaven"
What is a metaphor?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds: "blueblack cold" and "cloudless climes"
What is alliteration?
"water waving forever"
What is personification and alliteration?
Author of "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Who is Robert Frost?
Emotional poetry that features simple language and a musical quality
What is lyric poetry?
Giving human characteristics to non-human items, such as animals, objects or ideas:
"Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree"
What is personification?
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables:
"Whose woods these are I think I know"
What is meter?
"To be a cyclone of laughter"
What is metaphor and hyperbole?
Author of "Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"
Who is Clint Smith?
"What the Living Do"
What is an elegy?
Exaggeration for a humorous or dramatic effect:
"the rain is full of ghosts tonight"
What is hyperbole?
Repetition of vowel sounds: "Had half.."
What is assonance
"I only know that summer sang in me/ A little while, that in me sings no more"
What is alliteration, personification and symbolism?
Author of "Funeral Blues"
Who is W.H. Auden?
14 line poem written by Shakespeare, Petrarch and St. Vincent Millay?
What is a sonnet?
Addressing a concept, deceased person or absent person:
"Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days"
What is apostrophe?
Eight-line stanza
What is an octave?
"You are deemed expert on all things Morrison, King, Malcolm, Rosa."
What is apostrophe and allusion?
Poet who lives in Waltham
Who is Chen Chen?
A long, narrative poem about a renowned historical figure like Odysseus
What is epic poetry?
Using a part to represent a whole:
"A heart whose love is innocent!"
What is synecdoche?
Repetition of words in successive lines:
Life is short, though I keep this from my children
Life is short, and I've shortened mine
What is anaphora?
"We want the spring to come and the winter to pass"
What is symbolism and imagery?
Italian poet who wrote sonnets for a beautiful woman named Laura
Who is Petrarch?