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Poetry Terms
"The Road Not Taken"
Robert Frost Biography
"Fireflies in the Garden"
Important Facts
100
The term used to describe giving human traits to non human objects.
What is personification?
100
The author speaks of a fork in the road he encounters, this represents _____?
What is life choices?
100
Frost performed a reading of his poetry at this president's inauguration.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
The fireflies in this poem are being compared to _____.
What are stars?
100
Frost is one of the most well-known ________ poets.
What is American?
200
The poetry term used to describe the divisions or sections in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
The style of the poem "The Road Not Taken"
What is free verse?
200
Frost grew in the _____.
What is city?
200
The poem "Fireflies in the Garden" is often times viewed as a metaphor for _____.
What is love?
200
Robert Frost established a friendship with this poet who helped promote and publish his work.
Who is Ezra Pound?
300
The poetry term used to describe a comparison between two unlike objects.
What is a simile?
300
The "yellow wood" in the poem "The Road Not Taken" represents _____.
What is autumn?
300
The location that Frost did his best writing.
What is England?
300
"Fireflies in the Garden" is this type of poem.
What is a lyric?
300
Robert Frost's writing style.
What is traditional?
400
Comparison of two unrelated subjects, without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
400
Frost uses _____ in the poem "The Road Not Taken" to convey an underlying meaning.
What is irony?
400
Frost became popular for his depiction of ______ in his poems.
What is rural life?
400
The theme of the poem is a contrast between these two concepts.
What are genuine and imitation?
400
Frost favored these over any other use of figurative language.
What are metaphors?
500
The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
Frost uses this to set the scene of the poem and to hold metaphorical meaning.
What is nature?
500
Robert Frost was the unofficial _______ of the United States.
What is poet laureate?
500
The speaker's feeling of fireflies throughout the poem does this ________.
What is wanes?
500
Most of Frost's poetry was tied to this region of the United States.
What is New England?