Defining Poetry
Answer: People around the world have turned to poetry to express their...
Question: What are feelings and longings?
Question: True or False, The Narrative Poem's purpose(other than entertaining) is to tell a story.
Answer: True
Question: This is an emotional piece of literature which includes a story which is recited or sung.
Answer: What is a dramatic poem?
Answer: Narrative poetry can be found anywhere that expresses a theme, moral, and/or entertains.
Question: Where can narrative poetry be found?
Question: True or false: a period must be at the end of every stanza.
Answer: What is false?
Answer: According to the book, you can't do this to a poem
Question: What is kill it?
Question: True or False, Poems are usually told in third person?
Answer: false, They are usually told in first person.
Answer: Thomas Hardy's poem, "The Ruined Maid," is considered to be what kind of poem?
Question: What is a dramatic poem?
Answer: The most often place to find narrative poetry is in the form of a story.
Question: Where is it easiest to find narrative poetry?
Answer: It can effect the poem by causing a pause in words and lets the listener think about what the reader just said.
Question: How can a comma effect a narrative poem?
Answer: The book compares defining poetry to this.
Question: What is a snowflake?
Question: An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
Answer: What is a stanza?
Question: What does Thomas Hardy mean when he writes, "spudding up the docks"?
Answer: What is "spading up weeds"?
Question: True or false? Narrative poetry can be found in newspapers.
Answer: True
Answer: The color of Jake from State Farm's pants in the State Farm commercial.
Question: What is khaki?
Answer: This is defined as the choice of words.
Question: What is diction?
Question: A form of lengthy poem, often written in blank verse, in which poet shows a protagonist in action of historical significance, or a great mythic.
Answer: What is an epic poem?
Question: Dramatic poems can mean...
Answer: What are actual plays in verse (or "verse drama")?
Question: The conflict between these two things is apparent in "Head, Heart."
Answer: What are emotion and reason?
Short poems can teach us these two things.
What is to slow down and pay attention?
Answer: The poem "Head, Heart" depends entirely on these two literary elements.
Question: What are figures of speech and personification?
Question: True or false, a commercial CAN'T be a narrative poem.
Answer: FALSE, as long as there is a story inside of it, its a narrative poem!
Answer: "Under the sunset and into Vermont" is from this poem.
Question: What is "Out, Out -"?
Question: This term is often used to describe figurative language when it occurs in a play.
Answer: What is "poetic"?
Question: The poet, not the typesetter, is the one who determines this.
Answer: What is where the words fall on the page?