poets
definitions
examples
100

Who wrote the narrative poem " the Little Red Riding Hood"?

Roald Dahl

100

the same sound repeated in the end words of lines

rhyme

100

“Because I could not stop for Death –
Because he kindly stopped for me"

Emily Dickinson

personification

200

Which famous playwright is also famous for his sonnets?

William Shakespeare

200
the beat of the poem

rythm

200

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
— William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

hyperbole

300

Who wrote the poem "the Bells"?

Edgar Alan Poe

300

The repetition of vowel sounds

an assonance

300

What a tale of terror, now their turbulency tells!

alliteration (t)

400

Who wrote "Poetry os the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"?

William Wordsworth

400

a softer, more inoffensive word of phrase, used as a substitute for one ocnsidered too harsh or blunt.

a euphemism

400

“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
O Captain! my Captain! see our prize is won;”
— Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!

anaphora

500

Who wrote "hope is the thing with feathers"?

Emily Dickinson

500

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole for a part. 

a synecdoche

500

“O miserable abundance”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost

oxymoron