ELA Basics
The subject of a poem is called a topic. The greater message is called this
What is a theme?
Use these numbers to cite poetry in writing
What are line numbers?
2 lines
What is a couplet?
"Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance"
What is personification?
One of the two things that "to nothingness" does "sink" in John Keats's "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
What is love, or fame?
When working with poetry, we identify poetic devices and then __________ them
What is analyze?
What is an explication?
3 lines
What is a tercet?
What is alliteration? (or hyperbole)
Of what bacterial disease did John Keats die?
What is tuberculosis?
In English, only _________ punctuation marks can end a sentence.
What is three?
In written essays or paragraphs, poem titles should take
What are double quotation marks?
4 lines
What is a quatrain?
"Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,/ Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;"
What is metaphor?
To whom are these ominous words attributed? "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Who is Oyzmandias? (or Ramesses II)
What is this punctuation mark ...
What is an ellipsis?
Don't assume the poet is speaking; use this word for the voice behind the poem
What is speaker? (or narrator)
5 lines
What is a cinquain, or quintain?
What is personification?
One of the two Romantic poets on vacation with Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley (or Byron)?
Name the three punctuation marks that can end a sentence in English
What are a period, exclamation mark, and a question mark?
Use this punctuation mark to indicate line breaks when quoting a poem
What is a slash mark?
6 lines
What is a sestet?
"The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"
What is synechdoche?
This poet was the original person who was called "mad, bad, and dangerous to know"
Who is Byron (or, George Gordon, Lord Byron)?