Forms of Poetry
The poem that is divided into 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
What is Haiku?
This compare two dissimilar items using the words “like” or “as.”
What is a Simile?
She spent most of her time alone.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know....
What is “Annabel Lee”?
"Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."
What is an onomatopoeia?
This has no set limitations.
What is free verse?
The sweet birds sang sad songs.
What is alliteration?
He worked odd jobs. EX: bus boy
Who is Langston Hughes?
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep
Who is Robert Frost?
The typical rhyme scheme for many sonnets.
What is ABAB?
*couplet at the end.
These tell a story and feature a hero as the protagonist.
What is an Epic?
This occurs when some image, item, sign, or word represents something else.
What is symbolism?
This American poet was also a civil rights activist, singer, and involved in television.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This poem shows acceptance for the fact that death is inevitable.
What is “Because I could not stop for death”?
The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.
What is tone?
These are broken into three main sections and typically discuss grief.
What is an Elegy?
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
The creator of The Long Islander.
Who is Walt Whitman?
This is broken into three sections, including one that focuses on Acceptance.
What is “O’ Captain! My Captain!”?
The poet responsible for Sonnet 18.
Who is William Shakespeare?
These typically tell a childhood story and these are generally love stories.
(Two different types)
What is a ballad and a sonnet?
We know something that the characters do not know.
What is irony?
This dark, romantic poet is best known for more than just his poems.(Who is he, and what is he known for?)
Who is Edgar Allan Poe, and what are evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world?
Maya Angelou wrote “And Still __ ______”
What is “I Rise”?
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
What is “O Captain! My Captain!”?