Joy Harijo
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes/E.E. Cummings
Literary Devices
Anything!
100

Joy Harjo is a member of this Native American nation.

What is the Muscogee Creek

100

The two roads in "The Road Not Taken" serve as a metaphor for this.

What is life's choices

100

In "Mother to Son," Hughes uses an extended metaphor to compare life to this object.

What is a crystal stair

100

The poetic device used


"Her smile was as bright as the sun"

What is a simile

100

A Robert Frost poem about choices

What is "The Road Not taken"

200

In her poem "Ah Ah," Joy Harjo describes the spiritual connection to the _________________. 

What is the land

200

This rhyme scheme is used in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken."

What is ABAAB

200

The extended metaphor in "Mother to Son" suggests that the speaker's life has been full of this.

What are struggles/difficulties

200

The figurative language used


"The stars danced across the sky"

What is personification

200

Correctly pronounce this word:


"Diverged"

What is diverged

300

In “Eagle Poem,” the eagle is a symbol of this life concept.

What is "The circle of life"

300

Complete this line in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”  

"The woods are lovely dark and..."

What is deep

300

Finish this Langston Hughes line...


"I've known..."

What is rivers

300

The poetic device used


"She sells seashells by the seashore"

What is alliteration

300

A vocabulary word meaning 

"Unnecessary; more than enough"

What is superfluous

400

The line "ah, ah scrapes the hull of my soul,"  “Ah Ah” uses which literary device?

What is Repetition OR what is Onomatopoeia.

400

In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Frost uses this literary device to describe the winter scene.

What is imagery

400

The theme of E.E. Cummings’ poem "i thank you god for most this amazing" focuses on this.

What is appreciation of the natural world

400

The figurative language used

"The fog rolled in like a blanket" 

What is simile

400
A vocabulary word meaning:


"Playfully imaginative" 

What is whimsical 

500

We heard a reading by Joy Harijo in life where she said "The world begins at...______________"

What is a kitchen table

500

In Frost's “The Runaway,” this phrase describes the sound made by the horse’s hooves.

What is miniature thunder

500

What is unusual about how E.E. Cummings wrote the pronoun "I"?

What is, it was lowercase

500

The figurative language used


"My love is a rose"

What is a metaphor

500
The names of three poets studied this semester

What is:

Phil Kaye, Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, Joy Harjo, Langston Hughes