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Key Terms
Forms of Poetry
Famous People
Origins to Greeks
Greeks and Beyond
100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile
100
Run quickly boy run / Around in circles I go / Wind blowing softly
What is a haiku
100
Uses the vernacular and fart jokes
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer
100
Poetry started as ___________________ rather than an art form.
What is communication
100
The most important invention of all time (well at least for poetry and writing)
What is the printing press
200
BANG POW Whoosh
What is an Onomatopoeia
200
ababcdcdefefgg
What is a sonnet
200
Genius sonnet writer
Who is William Shakespeare
200
Musicians who "sang" the poems
Who are the bards
200
The Greeks coined the term ___________________
What is Poetry
300
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
What is alliteration
300
A short text written on tombstones
What is an epitaph
300
Invented free verse poetry (and my name is an example of alliteration)
Who is Walt Whitman
300
Poetry begins ______________________
When is before recorded history or 3000 BC
300
Rebirth
What is Renaissance
400
Enjambment
What is ending a line without punctuation
400
Freedom of choice
What is free verse
400
"Poetry is created when the gods remove from the poet all human senses replacing them with divine inspiration."
Who is Socrates
400
"words sung with a lyre"
What is a lyric
400
Walt Whitman is from this time period
When was the Victorian Era
500
Metaphor
What is a comparison not using "like" or "as"
500
Lengthy narrative poem (story)
What is an epic poem
500
We are the source of all inspired knowledge
Who are the Muses
500
______________ and ________________made poems more compelling and memorable (think alliteration)
What are rhythm and rhyme
500
During the Anglo-Saxon period ___________________ is introduced causing poetry to lose it's heroes and myths.
What is Christianity