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who wrote "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" and the "Mending wall"
What is Robert Frost
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Anne Sexton wrote which poem that begins with a "C"
What is "Courage"
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is a group of poetic lines kind of like a paragraph in a poem
What is stanza
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describe the difference between a metaphor and simile
metaphor describes a subject by asserting that it is. not using "like" or "as" simile uses "like" or "as"
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Daily Double is a punctuation mark something that causes a person to act
What is an Apostrophe what is motive
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Carl Sandburg wrote which poem? what is "Mirror" What is "Courage" what is "grass"
What is "Grass"
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MJ song "The Man in the Mirror" resembles what poem written by Sylvia Plath
What is "Mirror"
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what is the differences between internal rhyme, end rhyme and slant rhyme
internal rhyme happens within the line end rhyme happens at the end of the line slant Rhyme happens when either the vowel or consonants of stressed syllables are identical.
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how are meter and rhyming poetry alike?
meter is a poems rhythmical pattern rhyming poetry is when the word rhyme
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100 point each what is tone? what is Irony
tone is a literature technique which brings attitude towards the subject. irony is false conceptions
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"The Red Wheelbarrow" was written by which poet? what is E.E. Cummings what is William Carlos William what is Ezra Pound
What is William Carlos William
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E.E. Cummings a Harvard man, wrote which two poems? what is "red fish, blue fish"& "green eggs and ham" what is "I carry your heart with me"& "Old age sticks" what is "Luke Havergal" & "Richard Cory"
What is "I carry your heart with me"& "Old age sticks"
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describe lyric poetry, narrative poetry, dramatic poetry, and epic poetry.
lyric poetry is expressing vivid thoughts and feelings narrative poetry is telling a story dramatic poetry is using techniques of drama. epic poetry is celebrating the deeds of a hero
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daily double un-rhymed iambic pentameter which mimcs the sound of natural speech poetry that does not have a regular meter
What is blank verse What is Free verse
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100 points each what is alliteration what is allusion what is imagery
alliteration- the beginning of two or more stressed syllables allusion- a figure of speech that makes reference two imagery- is an authors use of vivid and descriptive language.
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Ezra Pound wrote which poem? what is "In a Station of the Metro" what is "old age sticks" what is "Mirror"
What is "In a Station of the Metro"
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which poet wrote "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" ? what is Emily Dickinson what is T.S. Eliot what is Edgar lee masters
What is T.S. Eliot
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the use of a word or phrase more than once
What is repetion
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what is symbolism, modernism, and imagism ?
modernism is an artistic movement imagism is an literary movement established by poets in the early 1900s symbolism is things with a symbolic meaning
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the poems "Luke Havergal" and "Richard Cory" where written by what poet?
What is Edwin Arlington Robinson
500
Daily double who wrote "because i could not stop for death" & "i Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" ? who wrote "Lucinda Matlock" & " Richard Bone"
What is Emily Dickinson and Edgar lee Masters
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tell the ryhme scheme of this poem "there is a cat who had a hat but we dont know why the hat started to fly so we said bye but a few days i saw the cat and the hat was back"
What is a,a,b,b,b,a,a
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100 points onomatopoeia 200 points oxymoron 200 point hyperbole
onomatopoeia is the extravagant words used like bam! oxymoron is an exaggeration of thing that don't go together like jumbo shrimp hyperbole is a statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally
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what is a haiku, feet, and iambic pentameter
haiku - is a Japaneses poem which goes 5-7-5. un-rhymed like a blank verse. feet- is the basis of a meter that when repeated makes a verse. iambic pentameter- is a verse written in five-foot lines with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed.