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She walks in beauty, like the night/ Of cloudless climes and starry skies;/ And all that’s best of dark and bright/ Meet in her aspect and her eyes;/ Thus mellowed to that tender light/ Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
What is "She Walks in Beauty"?
100
The Rape of the Lock
Who is Alexander Pope?
100
The rhyme scheme of the following verse: That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,/ Looking as if she were alive. I call/ That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands/ Worked busily a day, and there she stands./
What is a a b b?
100
The category of rhyming poetry that expresses strong feelings, once meant to be sung with a lyre?
What is a lyric?
100
It's a four line stanza
What is a quatrain?
200
Your name doesn’t matter./ I loved you./ We loved./
What is "I'm On My Way to Oklahoma to Bury the Man I Nearly Left My Husband For"?
200
Love From the North
Who is Christina Rossetti?
200
The poetic term for the last two rhyming lines of a sonnet such as: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/ As any she belied with false compare.
What is "(Closing) Couplet" or "Epigram"?
200
"Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs" by Edmund Spenser, is called a sonnet because of this.
What is "It has 14 lines"?
200
In "Sonnet 130" Shakespeare critiques this kind of poetry that lists women's body parts and compares them to beautiful objects.
What is a "blazon/blason"?
300
My father will say nothing./ After a while everyone/ will forget it./ Years and years will pass./ My mother will stop mentioning it./
What is "My Wicked Wicked Ways"?
300
At the Altar Rail
Who is Thomas Hardy?
300
Term for a repeated word/line/stanza like: "New York, concrete jungle/ where dreams are made of/ There's nothing you can't do/ Now you're in New York/ These streets will make you/ feel brand new/ Big lights will inspire you/ Hear it for New York,/ New York, New York"
What is a "refrain"?
300
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
What is a ballad?
300
The poetic technique of creating word pictures as in "The black nets beneath the sea of olive trees. A skein of blue wool. A tea saucer wrapped in newspaper. An empty cracker tin. A bowl of blueberries in heavy cream. White wine in a green-stemmed glass."
What is "imagery"?
400
Be the mistress of my choice,/ Clean in manners, clear in voice;/ Be she witty, more than wise,/ Pure enough, though not precise;/
What is "What Kind of Mistress He Would Have"?
400
"What my frenzied heart craved in utter yearning,/ Whom its wild desire would persuade to passion?/ What disdainful charms, madly worshipped, slight thee?/ Who wrongs thee, ___?"
Who is Sappho?
400
The poetic term for addressing someone (usually not present) such as in: Aphrodite, subtle of soul and deathless,/ Daughter of God, weaver of wiles, I pray thee/ Neither with care, dread Mistress, nor with anguish,/ Slay thou my spirit!
What is "Apostrophe"?
400
Before you became a cloud, you were an ocean, roiled and murmuring like a mouth. You were the shadow of a cloud crossing over a field of tulips. You were the tears of a man who cried into a plaid handkerchief. You were a sky without a hat. Your heart puffed and flowered like sheets drying on a line.
What is free verse?
400
The term for the repeated sounds at the beginning of a stressed syllable: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,/ Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; (deep/darkness/doubting/dreaming/dreams/dared/dream)
What is "Alliteration"?
500
Do not say/ "I love her for her smile--her look--her way/ Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought/ That falls in well with mine, "/
What is "Sonnets From the Portuguese XIV"?
500
Hiawatha
Who is H. W. Longfellow?
500
The scansion (stress pattern) of the following lines: O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,/ Alone and palely loitering?/ The sedge has withered from the lake,/ And no birds sing.
What is x / x / x / x / (3 times) and then x / x /
500
A poem that is enacts a play, but we can only hear one character speaking; others may be present but we don't hear their voices or know what they think.
What is a "dramatic monolog"?
500
An iambic pentameter
What is a 5 foot line, with each foot having two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed?