This is a poetic device that uses "made up" words.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
"She stood stone still..."
What is alliteration?
100
This is poem about a bird.
What is "The Raven?"
100
This is a special form of punctuation Dickinson uses at the end of important words or stanza's.
What is a dash?
100
This is the style in which Walt Witman wrote his poems.
What is free verse?
200
This is a four line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
200
"We bleed green!"
What is assonance?
200
What literary device is Poe using when he says, "nevermore" at the end of every stanza?
Repetition
200
"The soul selects her own ____."
What is society?
200
This is the mood of many of Walt Witman's poems?
What is relaxed, calm, etc?
300
This is the feel of a piece of poetry.
What is mood?
300
"Chill/Tulle"
"Today/Victory"
What is slant rhyme?
300
What is the name of his lost love?
Lenore
300
What does Dickinson mean by "My life closed twice before its close-"
She has already experienced two loses, before her own death.
300
"I guess it must be the flag of my disposition...
I guess it is the handkerchief...
I guess the grass itself a child..."
The element being used here is...
What is repitition?
400
This is a list of people, ideas, or attributes.
What is a catalog?
400
"Because I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me."
What is personification?
400
This is the mood as the story begins.
What is ominous or eerie?
400
The "gazing grain" in Dickinson's poem, "Because I could not stop for death" symbolizes...
What is the growth of children throughout their life?
400
This is the metaphor in "A Noiseless, Patient Spider"?
What is the speaker comparing his soul's search for belonging to a spider's task of building a web.
500
This is when a poet uses the same grammatical structure in a sentence or stanza.
What is parallelism?
500
"Madness is divinest sense."
What is consonance?
500
This is what the speaker's doing at the beginning of the poem.
What is reading old books.?
500
"As he defeated--dying--
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!"
What elements create the rhythm in these lines?
The dashes and punctuation.
500
These are the three poems we read by Walt Whitman.
What are "I hear America Singing," "Song of Myself," and "A Noiseless, Patient Spider"?