Vocabulary
A piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure is a ___________.
What is a poem?
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world is called a __________.
What is a haiku?
This poet is widely known as the father of modern horror stories.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
A number in a circle represents what when annotating poetry?
What are the stanzas?
"Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long...
What is Eldorado by Poe?
A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer is _____________.
What is repetition?
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas is called a ________________.
What is a ballad?
This American poet published a total of 8 books of poetry during his lifetime.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
Words that are unknown to the reader are _______________ when annotating.
What is underlined?
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..."
What is The Road Not Taken by Frost?
The correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry is called ____________.
What is a rhyme?
Name a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba.
What is a limerick?
This poet's work is characterized by its rural settings and somber tone.
Who is Robert Frost?
Words that indicate this are circled when annotating.
What are emotionally charged words?
"Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal!"
What is "A Psalm of Life" by Longfellow?
A _________expresses the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
What is a lyric?
A/An __________ is a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
What is an epic?
This poet invented and proposed a contest in order to secure a job with a newspaper.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Do this with important thoughts and connections.
What is write them in the margins?
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence..."
What is The Road Not Taken by Frost?
The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words is ______________.
What is alliteration?
A __________ is 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?
This poet was considered the "most popular American in the world" following the American Civil War.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
A small ~ under letters is used to indicate these two sound devices.
What are alliteration and assonance?
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!"