The point in a poem where the emotion takes a dramatic shift, usually offering insight.
What is a fulcrum?
100
This poet wrote:
Men don't make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
Who is Dorothy Parker?
100
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
Who is Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"?
100
Name two slang words or catch phrases given to us by the Beat Movement.
What are Square, Daddy-O, Hep Cat, Dig, "like", bad news, beast, bomb, go "cut the grass", get bent, fade out, squaresville?
200
Allen Ginsberg
What is the Beat Movement?
200
A modern poetic technique in which the author plays with or omits capitalization, punctuation, and/or spacing to emphasize certain elements of the poem; first popularized by e. e. cummings.
What is unusual typography?
200
This poet spent some time working on his grandfather's chicken farm before going to England and achieving literary renown.
Who is Robert Frost?
200
“Each fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
Hills and red gullies of Mississippi send out their electric
Messages, galvanizing my genes.”
Who is Etheridge Knight "The Idea of Ancestry"?
200
This phrase refers to poetry in which the lines, while having rhyme and meter, resemble spoken conversation, first popularized by Robert Frost?
What is sound of sense?
300
Langston Hughes.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of a lines; seen in Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" where he uses the phrase "And they tell me..."
What is anaphora?
300
Before embarking on an academic career as a college professor, this poet trained pilots during World War II.
Who is Randall Jarrell?
300
“But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears,
Take the rag away from your face.
Now ain’t the time for your tears.”
Who is Bob Dylan "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"?
300
"And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back
For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track;
And one eye's black intelligence, - ever that glance
O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance!"
Who is Robert Browning's "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"?
400
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What is the Romantic Movement?
400
The breaking of a syntactic unit (phrase, clause, or sentence) beyond the second line of one couplet into the first line of the next; as seen in Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "We Real Cool"
What is enjambment?
400
This poet, known for her Black Arts Movement poetry, won a Grammy for her poetry recording in the 1970s and is now a professor at Virginia Tech.
Who is Nikki Giovanni?
400
"I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys."
Who is Allen Ginsberg "A Supermarket in California"?
400
This poet, born in the Midwest, traveled as a hobo on freight trains before getting involved with the socialist movement of the early 20th century.
Who is Carl Sandburg?
500
Etheridge Knight
What is the Black Arts Movement?
500
The use of repetitions of thought, patterns, syntax, word order, rhythmic structure, words, phrases, clauses, etc. in consecutive lines
What is parallelismus membrorum?
500
This autobiographical poet gained a following during his time in jail and then achieved renown in the 1960s and 1970s.
Who is Etheridge Knight?
500
"Let's face it, I have been momentary.
A luxury. A bright red sloop in the harbor.
My hair rising like smoke from the car window.
Littleneck clams out of season."
Who is Anne Sexton "For My Lover Returning to His Wife"?
500
A poem, usually a dramatic story, told from the point of view of a single individual, often a persona or fictional character.