Poe
Lingo
Sonnets
Poetry Random
Review
100

Military academy where Poe dropped out of

West Point

100

Comparing using like or as

Simile

100

Lines in a sonnet

14

100

Robert Herrick believed that young individuals needed to do one thing to live a fulfilling and rich life

Marry

100

Author who wrote about a poor Mexican family in the Gulf of Mexico, where they find "The Pearl of the World."

John Steinbeck 

200

Name of the wife in "The Raven" 

Lenore

200

The repetition of vowel sounds

Assonance 

200

The external rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet 

ABABCDCDEFEFGG

200

An individual who influenced Walt Whitman 

Abraham Lincoln 

200

Device used to describe someone who is trying to persuade you using emotions

Pathos

300

The Greek goddess of wisdom and strategic battle. Seen in "The Raven"

Pallas

300

Unified group of lines in poetry

Stanza

300

Ten syllables per line in a Shakespearean Sonnet is referred to as an

Iambic Pentameter 

300

A structure of a poem that rises and falls throughout the stanza, like in Miniver Cheevy

Sighing structure 

300

Caesars best friend who betrays him

Brutus

400

Type of writing that focuses on the darker side of the human psyche. 

Gothic Romanticism

400

Central meaning behind the text

Theme

400

Type of conflict mostly seen in "The Raven"

Man vs. Self

400

First performance given at The Globe Theater

Julius Caesar

500

Nights Plutonion Shore refers to where?

The Underworld

500

A brief reference to another piece of work

Allusion

500

The measured arrangement of

sounds/beats in a poem, including

the poet’s placement of emphasis

and the number of syllables per line.

Meter

500

Writing that directly follows a claim in a research paper

Evidence