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What am I?
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Name that Poem
Hodgepodge
100
I am a poem with 17 syllables--five in lines 1 and 3 and seven in line 3.
What is a Haiku?
100
THOU still unravish'd 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:
What is A-B-A-B
100
Comparison using like or as.
What is a similie?
100
"the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and we"
What is In Just?
100
A type of metaphor in which human qualities are given to something that is not human.
What is personification?
200
I am a poem that tells a story, using a steady rhythm, strong rhymes and repetition.
What is a ballad?
200
O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
What is A-B-A
200
The repeating the same consonant sound in several words.
What is a alliteration?
200
I am an example of a catalog poem.
What is The Car?
200
The repetition of vowels sounds in several words.
What is Assonance?
300
A fourteen-line poem; typically written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
300
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing—This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays.
What is A-A-B-B-C-C
300
Expressions that put aside literal meanings in favor of imaginative connections.
What is figurative speech?
300
"...a shepherd's horn echoing in the valley, fishnets stretched to dry on sandy flats."
What is Country Scene?
300
Ho Xuan Hu'o'ng is known by what other name?
What is Spring Essence?
400
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
400
MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began, So is it now I am a man, So be it when I shall grow old 5 Or let me die!
What is A-B-C-C-A-B
400
A comparison of two unlike things. Does not use like or as.
What is metaphor?
400
"It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age"
What is Once Beside the Pacific?"
400
"The old pond; A frog jumps in: Sound of water." What is not actually ever heard in this haiku by Matsuo Basho
What is the sound of water?
500
A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of a feeling.
What is Lyric poem?
500
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
What is NONE- THIS IS FREE VERSE.
500
Suggests a comparison between two things, rather than stating the comparison directly.
What is Implied Metaphor?
500
"Little martyrs, soldiers, artless suicides I lifelong liberation..."
What is Starfish?
500
How many syllables are in a haiku and how are they distributed?
What is 17? 5 syllables in lines 1 and 30, and 7 syllables in line 2.