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Name That Poet
100
A central idea of a literary work.
What is theme?
100
Figure of speech in which one thing is written about as if it was another.
What is metaphor?
100
The repetition of consonant and vowel sounds in words.
What is rhyme?
100
The emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work.
What is tone?
100
I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
200
A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer’s style.
What is parody?
200
A direct comparison (it uses like or as).
What is simile?
200
A pattern of end rhyme.
What is rhyme scheme?
200
The voice assumed by the writer of a poem (similar to a narrator in prose).
What is speaker?
200
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.
Who is Robert Frost?
300
Contrast between what is expected or what appears to be and what actually is.
What is irony?
300
A figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing is described as if it were a person.
What is personification?
300
The use of words or phrases that sound like the things in which they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A loose statement of the idea rather than an exact translation. A ___ of a poem indicates a prose explanation of a difficult passage.
What is paraphrase?
300
In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
400
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
An object that is itself, and at the same time represents something else.
What is a symbol?
400
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
400
The vivid mental picture created in the readers’ mind by the language used in a poem.
What is imagery?
400
She spews gusts and thunder, spooks pale women who scurry to lock doors, windows when her tumbleweed skirt starts its spin.
Who is Pat Mora?
500
Poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, meter or division into stanzas.
What is free verse?
500
Gross exaggeration used to emphasize something.
What is hyperbole?
500
Repeating a line or phrase in a poem to emphasize it.
What is repetition?
500
Writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally.
What is figurative language?
500
The mountain sat upon the plain?In his tremendous chair—?His observation omnifold,?His inquest, everywhere—
Who is Emily Dickinson?