Poems
A Japanese poem with 17 syllables following in three lines of 5-7-5
What is haiku?
Her eyes are like diamonds.
What is a simile?
The poet of Seven Ages of Man?
Who is William Shakespeare?
This is a unit of sound.
It is either stressed or unstressed
What is a syllable?
What has 14 lines, has a meter, and uses a standard rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
A Sonnet with 14 lines written in Iambic Pentameter.
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
Mrs. Livengood likes lobster and linguini!
What is alliteration?
Edgar Allen Poe wrote this poem
What is The Raven?
A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables arranged into feet.
What is a meter?
A group of lines together in a poem, like sentences in a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The Seven Ages of Man was written in
What is blank verse?
I am so hungry that I could eat a horse.
(Will accept 2 answers)
What is an idiom or a hyperbole?
A poem about a "child of scorn," by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
What is Miniver Cheevy?
Fill in the blanks: The Shakespearean sonnet has three ___ followed by a ___.
What are Quatrains, couplet?
Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's senses.
What is imagery?
1. Infant 2. Schoolboy 3. Lover 4. Soldier 5. Judge 6. An old fool 7. A second childhood/death
What are the seven ages Shakespeare writes about?
My dog yelled at me when I would not feed him.
What is personification?
Author of A Red, Red Rose.
Who is Robert Burns?
A sonnet is also called
What is an argument?
The repetition of identical or similar sounds in words.
What is rhyme?
Person for whom Poe wrote the Raven
Who is his dying wife?
hiss, quack, sputtered, zap, bang
What is onomatopoeia?
Basho (1664-1694), Yosa Buson (1716-1783), Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) are all known for writing
What are haiku?
First quatrain: An exposition of the main____ and ____.
What are theme and metaphor?
A rhyme that occurs within the same line in a poem or song lyrics.
What is internal rhyme?