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What is poetry?
A poem that has an unstressed and a stressed syllable in each foot.
What is iambic?
Comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or than.
What is a simile?
A author known for his dark and despairing poems and stories.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
And often she wishes that when they were born, she had named one of them, Bodkin Van Horn.
What was "Too Many Daves"?
A pair of words that end with the same sounds but begin with different ones.
What is a rhyme?
A poem that has a stressed and an unstressed syllable in each foot?
What is a trochaic?
Comparison of two unlike things without using like, as, or than.
What is a metaphor?
A playwright from the 1500s that wrote mostly in iambic pentameter.
The line that comes before "Kissed the Girls and made them cry".
What was "Georgie Porgie Puddin' and Pie"?
A measured rhythm of a line of poetry.
What is meter?
A line of poetry that has four feet.
What is tetrameter?
A figure of speech in which a thing is represented as though it had human qualities.
What is personification?
A fun children's poet who wrote rhyming stories about funny beings, whose real name was Theodore Gissel.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
Comes after "Listen my children and you shall hear"
What is: "The midnight ride of Paul Revere".
A marking that designates an unstressed syllable.
What is a breve?
A poem that has two unstressed and one stressed syllable in a foot.
What is anapestic?
Repetition of identical consonant sounds at the beginning of words in the same line.
What is alliteration?
Famous for his historical narrative poems, this poet wrote, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
The number of times the word "bells" is in Edgar Allen Poe's poem of the same name, including the title.
What is eleven?
A pair of words that don't rhyme exactly, but approximately.
What is a slant rhyme?
When the shape of the poem corresponds to the poem's content.
What is spatial poetry?
"Life is a bowl of cherries", is an example of this trope.
What is a metaphor?
Wrote nature poems, such as "The Road Less Travelled".
Who was Robert Frost?
"The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold" is the first line of "The Destruction of..."?
What is Sennacherib?