Poetic Terms
Imagery
Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images. Specifically, using vivid or figurative language to represent ideas, objects, or actions.
In 2021, this poet became the youngest Inaugural Poet Laureatte. Who is this poet?
Amanda Gorman
A prose composition that, while not broken into verse lines, demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry.
Define Found Poetry
A prose text or texts reshaped by a poet into quasi-metrical lines.
Allusion
A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
This famous poet believed that their poem "The Road Not Taken" was very misunderstood. Who is this poet?
Robert Frost
What is a Haiku?
A three-line poem that consists of exactly 17 syllables. In this type of poem, the first line is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 syllables and the third line is 5 syllables.
Define what a "Quatrain" is in Poetry.
A four-line stanza, often with various rhyme schemes, including: -ABAC or ABCB
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense.
Which famous poet is the author of "Still I Rise"
Maya Angelou
This kind of poem always contains fourteens lines. It contains any number of formal rhyme schemes. When in English, this type of poem usually has ten syllables per line. What is this type of poem?
Sonnet
In poetry, What does Meter mean?
In poetry, the meter of a poem is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse of the poem.
Epigraph
A quotation from another literary work that is placed beneath the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem.
This poet is known as the "father of free-verse poetry". Who is this poet
Walt Whitman
Define what it means when a poem is considered an "Ode".
A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is the name of the Poem we read this year in American Literature that uses the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire as an Allusion?
"Shirt" by Robert Pinsky
Canon
A list of authors or works considered to be central to the identity of a given literary tradition or culture.
This male poet was a popular figure of the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement. Who is this poet?
LANGSTON HUGHES
What five-line poem always consists of one single stanza and an AABBA rhyme scheme?
A Limerick Poem.
The popular Children's Book, The Giving Tree was written by a very well know poet. Who was this poet?
"Hint": The poet's first and last name starts with the same letter.
Shel Silverstein