This poet currently resides in California. She wrote "One Art."
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
100
The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning, of a work.
What is tone?
100
This poet wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
Who is John Keats?
100
This poem is a fourteen-line verse form written in iambic pentameter that includes three quatrains and a concluding couplet.
What is a sonnet?
100
The speaker's hearing is last to go in this famous poem by Emily Dickinson.
What is "I heard a fly buzz--when I died?"
200
Written from the perspective of a seductive siren, this poet wrote "Siren Song."
Who is Margaret Atwood?
200
A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in literature or history.
What is an allusion?
200
A poem that praises or pays tribute to a specific object, person, place, or thing.
What is an ode?
200
A nineteen line fixed form with lines 1 and 3 serving as refrains throughout the poem, and repeated as the final lines for 18 and 19.
What is a villanelle?
200
A stanza which reads through from one line to the next without pause.
What is an enjambent?
300
This poet wrote "The Flea" -- a playful seduction poem.
Who is John Donne?
300
A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept.
What is personification?
300
"Thou still unravished bride of quietness,/Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,/Sylvan historian, who canst thus express/A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme," is a reference to what or whom?
What is an urn?
300
A poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation.
What is a dramatic monologue?
300
This poem is an example of a dramatic monlogue.
What is "My Last Duchess?"
400
He wrote "The Mending Wall," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "'Out, Out,'" and "The Road Not Taken."
Who is Robert Frost?
400
"My love is like a red, red rose," is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
400
Line 51 asks these two questions.
What is Beauty? What is Truth?
400
A story or accounts of events, experiences, or the like (whether true or untrue).
What is a narrative?
400
How many speakers are in the poem "When in Rome?"
What is two?
500
This poet did not write a "love song."
Who is T. S. Eliot?
500
Prominently used in works by Dickinson, Eliot, and Donne, this poetic device is a type of extended metaphor that compares two seemingly unlikely things.
What is a conceit?
500
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," is spoken by what or whom?
What is an urn?
500
Characteristics include 6 six-line stanzas, with a rhyme scheme characterized by the rotation of single words at the end of each line, and a concluding three-line stanza.
What is a sestina?
500
In "Siren Song," what line or lines reveals that the speaker somewhat enjoys her cruel game?
What is "Alas/it is a boring song/but it works every time." (Lines 25-27.)