Poetry Terms
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is an allusion
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
What is a ballad
Known for her spoken word poetry, she is the founder and co-director of Project V.O.I.C.E., founded in 2004, a group dedicated to using spoken word as an educational and inspirational tool.
Who is Sarah Kay
Elizabethan era playwright and poet who is regarded as the most influential writer in English literature
Who is William Shakespeare
Some people read palms to tell you your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.
What is Hands by Sarah Kay
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
What is onomatopoeia
a poem that tells a story and has a plot
What is a narrative poem
An African-American poet and author, she is known for her 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, as well as for her poem "On the Pulse of Morning."
Who is Maya Angelou
Welsh-born novelist, screenwriter, and fighter pilot who authored such children's classics as James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, and Matilda. Many of his popular books, including The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Fantastic Mr. Fox, have been made into feature films.
Who is Roald Dahl
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
What is the Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
What is anthropomorphism
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse
American poet who is recognized for having been the 2009 National Underground Poetry Slam Champion. He is also known for having received an NAACP Image Award nomination.
Who is Rudy Francisco
African-American poet, author, activist, and Harlem Renaissance leader whose best-known works include The Weary Blues, Montage of a Dream Deferred, Not Without Laughter, and Black Nativity. He published his masterpiece poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," in 1921.
Who is Langston Hughes
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;
What is If by Rudyard Kipling
refers to repetition of sounds in quick succession produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
What is consonance
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
What is a sonnet
Known as Uncle Shelby for his children's books, such as Where the Sidewalk Ends. He wrote A Boy Named Sue, which Johnny Cash popularized.
Who is Shel Silverstein
Nobel Prize-winning modernist poet best known for The Wasteland and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. His later works include The Hollow Men and Murder in the Cathedral.
Who is TS Eliot
Sometimes when I'm alone
I Cry,
Cause I am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and warm.
They flow with life but take no form
I Cry because my heart is torn.
What is I Cry by Tupac Shakur
refers to the use of concepts or ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together hold significant value on several levels.
What is a paradox
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
What is a Haiku
Prolific spoken word poet known for the release of poetry books like A Light Bulb Symphony and recognized as the co-director of the literacy organization Project VOICE.
Who is Phil Kaye
An American literary icon known for his macabre tales and poems,
Who is Edgar Allan Poe
The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
What is Television by Roald Dahl