Terms to Know
Double Meanings
Sound Devices
What is Poetry?
Miscellaneous
100

Comparing two things with like or as.

What is a simile?

100

A living or nonliving object representing something else 

What is symbolism?

100

The repetition of initial sounds in a line of poetry

What is alliteration?

100

A poem that is 14 lines with 10 syllables per line, each in iambic pentameter.

What is a sonnet?

100

Most ______ are also considered poets due to the style, content, and elements of their written work.


Fill in the blank 

Musicians, artists, songwriters... 

200

Comparing two things without using "like" or as.

What is a metaphor?

200

Writers use this to communicate deeper ideas without having to state them.

What is figurative language/figures of speech

200

When a word is spelled like the way in sounds

What is onomatopoeia 

200

A poem that is not in fixed form.

What is free verse?

200

TRUE or FALSE

"Poets use the raw materials of language to forge new understandings - They comment on what is and means to be a human being."




True 

300

Giving person-like qualities to something non-human.

What is personification?

300

TRUE or FALSE

In different texts, symbols can change depending on the context and the author's purpose 

TRUE

ex: In the story of Snow White the apple symbolizes dark temptations, but for Isaac Newton it represents discovery.

300

These poetic techniques are often called this because they make poems sound good to human ears --like music   


Side note: Lyrical poems must contain these 

Sound devices 

300

A poem that celebrates a person, place, or idea.

What is an ode?

300

The author's attitude or ________ about a topic can be inferred by their choice of words.



tone 


authors and poets use precise words to create tone 

ex. grim, serious, hopeful

400

A group of lines in a poem

Stanza

400

This type of phrase might be nearly impossible for newcomers to the region, US, or English language to understand. 

An Idiom 

400

The beat and pace of a poem - created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

What is rhythm/meter

example: iambic pentameter 

400

The reason poetry is absent of grammar rules is because the original form of poetry is this

Oral storytelling

400

Poetry comes from the ancient Greek word/verb poiesis 

which means/translates to  ...

"to create"

500

A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, movies, etc


Allusion 

500

This question has an excerpt:


The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.


In this poem what do the "two roads" symbolize?

The journey of life and the decisions we make on that journey.

500

Example: Hal hit the house hard with a hammer 


This poetic technique is often called a tongue twister 

Alliteration 

500

Sometimes the ______ of the poem is just as important as the words it contains


Shape, position... 

ex. 

E.E Cummings (Famous Cambridge, Mass Poet)

l(a... (a leaf falls on loneliness)


l(a

le
af
fa
ll

s)
one
l

iness

500

"A lot of young students believe poetry is a _____ ______ that only English teachers and geniuses understand." 


Fill in the two blank words

secret language