Poets
This poet wrote a poem about stealing plums.
Hint: W C W
Who is William Carlos Williams?
This example of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
This is defined as a collection of lines that resemble a paragrah.
What is a stanza
The solution to an addition problem
What is a sum
This poet contributed to our Quote of the Week. He wrote a poem in the style of an "Ars Poetica" that compared a poet to an acrobat.
Hint: Mr. A met him
Who is Lawrence Ferlinghetti?
This example of figurative language compares two things, saying one is another, but does not use the words like or as.
What is metaphor?
This is described as the blank space in between two stanzas.
What is a stanza break
A network in the body consisting of blood, blood vessels, and the heart.
What is the circulatory system
This poet utilized the poetic device of Anaphora (repetition of words/phrases in the beginning of a poem) to write about his desire to leave a lecture room and look at the stars.
Hint: He looks like Santa
Who is Walt Whitman?
This example of figurative language is defined as a words that sound like their meaning. Examples: pow, zam, boom, zap.
What is Onomatopoeia
This is described as the ordered (ex, A,B,A,B) pattern of rhymes at the end of the sentence.
Hint: 2 words. We assign letters to ending rhyme words in order to find the _______ _________
What is rhyme scheme
This term is defined as two or more people or things that are dependent on each other. Hint, think of science.
What is interdependent
This poet used slant rhymes in her poem titled "#359". This poem is about a bird eating a worm, and the speaker offering bread to the bird.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This example of figurative language gives human characteristics to non human things.
What is personification
What is tone.
A word or phrase that means exactly the same thing, or nearly the same thing, as another word or phrase.
What is a synonym
This poet wrote a poem titled "Dust of Snow", or "Snow Dust", about a crow shaking down snow from a hemlock tree. His poem was the first we read with a rhyme scheme
Hint: His last name has something to do with winter
Who is Robert Frost?
a group of words whose meaning isn't understood from their literal meaning. Example: it's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom
The shape, structure, or appearance of a piece of writing
What is form.
A result obtained by dividing one quantity by another. Hint: 12 ÷ 3 =
What is a quotient