Figurative Language
The line, "Bessie, bop, or Bach."
What is a alliteration?
The poet who wrote "Theme for English B."
Who is Langston Hughes?
The main theme in "Theme for English B."
What is Racism (Race Relations)?
The individual that "Theme for English B" is addressed to.
Who is the narrator's professor?
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?
The term "Buzz" in the phrase"uncertain stumbling Buzz."
What is onomatopoeia?
The poet who wrote the poem, "The Bells," as well as "The Raven."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The new "thing" personified by Emily Dickinson.
What is death?
The word reiterated by the raven in "The Raven."
What is Nevermore?
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
The phrase, "His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin."
What is a simile?
The state in which Emily Dickinson was born.
What is Massachusetts?
The theme in "Dulce et Decorum Est." It is the same theme from "The Sniper."
War/The Tragedy of War?
The weapon that killed the soldiers in "Dulce et Decorum Est."
What is gas?
The type of poem that follows a particular set of rules, whether it be the number of lines, the length or number of stanzas, etc.
What is form?
"Pallas" from the phrase, "Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door."
What is an allusion?
Wilfred Owen's occupation.
What is a soldier?
The literary term associated with Edgar Allan Poe's poetry, representing the dark, yet romantic.
What is Gothic?
The amount of syllables in a metric foot.
What is 2?
The term for 3 metric feet per line.
What is Iambic Trimeter?
The phrase, "(I hear New York, too.) Me-who?"
What are internal rhyme and personification?
The artistic movement that Langston Hughes was said to be a leader of.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The main theme from "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain."
What is losing one's mind. Insanity.
a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.
What is a Villanelle?
The repetition of similar vowels in successive words.
What is assonance?