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100
Who wrote the poem "This Is Just To Say"?
Who is William Carlos Williams?
100
BING! BAM! POW!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Tear/Bear are examples of what?
What is a slant/ half rhyme?
100
She is like such a cow.
What is a simile?
100
Identify the intensifier(s) in the following sentence: The cat jumped over the extremely high table to eat the very cool looking fish, who was really old.
What is extremely/very/really
200
What is the only punctuation in "This Is Just To Say"?
What is the capitalization of I and Forgive?
200
The candle flame danced in the dark.
What is personification?
200
A grouping of sentence is called a paragraph, but in poetry it is also called a ____________.
What is a stanza?
200
The feeling the speaker emits towards their subject is what?
What is tone?
200
What are sensory imagery words describing?
What are words that describe the five senses: olfactory, tactile, visual, auditory, and gustation.
300
What kind of poet was William Carlos Williams?
What is imagist poet?
300
SHUT UP!
What is a spondee?
300
In the introduction to his I Have A Dream speech Martin Luther King Jr. said "five score years ago." He was clearly referencing Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," and using what kind of poetic device?
What is an allusion?
300
She is toast when she gets here.
What is a metaphor?
300
True or false: the writer of a poem is the speaker in the poem.
What is false?
400
Who supposedly wrote, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
400
Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!"
What is alliteration?
400
Not only is alliteration at play, but this is also a clear example of a __________. I've got that summertime, summertime sadness S-s-summertime, summertime sadness Got that summertime, summertime sadness Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh I've got that summertime, summertime sadness S-s-summertime, summertime sadness Got that summertime, summertime sadness Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
What is a refrain?
400
In the sentence, "I've told her a million times One Direction is way better than The Beatles," the phrase "a million times," is an example of what?
What is hyperbole?
400
Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter is called?
What is free verse?
500
Hemingway's short story "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," is what form of fiction (be specific)?
What is flash fiction?
500
Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances…"
What is a conceit?
500
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. In T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land" the continuation of the sense of a phrase beyond the end of a line of verse is what?
What is an enjambment?
500
In the sentence, "her deep, sea-green dress is something I detest," what are the words deep/sea/green an example of?
What is assonance?
500
The cat sat in the hat because it was too fat. The above line has a lot of _________?
What is rhyme?