Genre
What is a ballad?
Writes often about love, sorrow, and death.
Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
"Ten terrible toads tripped through the town."
What is alliteration?
"My head swam like it was in a cloud of mist."
What is simile?
unstressed, stressed
A poem that mourns something that is lost
What is an elegy?
Uses free verse instead of any formal structures.
Who was Walt Whitman?
blessed / stressed
What is a perfect rhyme?
"Thousands of pennies spilled from the purse."
What is hyperbole?
stressed, unstressed
What is a trochee?
A poem that celebrates something
Wrote "The Arrow and the Song".
Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
drought / bought
What is a sight rhyme?
The clouds raced across the sky.
What is personification?
unstressed, unstressed, stressed
What is an anapest?
A poem where the last word of the lines repeat in a pattern through the poem
What is a sestina?
Used hymn meter and wrote about religion and nature.
Who was Emily Dickinson?
"Once upon a midnight dreary / While I pondered, weak and weary"
What is a rhyming couplet?
"The bird was a brilliant symphony."
What is metaphor?
stressed, unstressed, unstressed
What is a dactyl?
A poem with 19 lines with the first and third lines repeating
What is a villanelle?
Wrote "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art".
Who was John Keats?
"I swam upstream / I swam downstream / I swam in circles / I swam to shore."
What is anaphora?
"Tiny voices spoke in unison."
What is synecdoche?
Five poetic feet in a line
What is pentameter?