Poets
Figurative Language
Form
MISC
100
Which poet wrote "Still I Rise?"

Maya Angelou

100

A metaphor that continues through the length of a literary work is called...

An extended metaphor

100

A poem lacking clear meter or rhyme scheme

Free Verse

100

Emily Dickinson commonly wrote in which kind of meter?

Common Meter

200

Walt Whitman was called "The American _________..."

A. Poet
B. Visionary
C. Shakespeare

Shakespeare

200

Giving human traits to nonhuman things is called...

Personification

200
How many lines are in a cinquain?
Five
200

When a description uses one of the 5 senses, it is called

Imagery

300

Who is the current U.S. Poet Laureate?
A. Ada Limon
B. Arthur Sze
C. Joy Harjo

Arthur Sze

300

An indirect comparison using "like" or "as"

Simile
300

How many lines are in a couplet?

Two

300

When an author asks a question that is not meant to be directly answered, it is called

A rhetorical question

400

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson belong to which literary movement?

Transcendentalism
400

A direct comparison using "is" is called

Metaphor
400

How many lines are in a tercet?

Three
400

Repeating the beginning of a phrase is called...

Anaphora

500

Robert Frost belongs to which literary movement?

Modernism
500

When the ending of two words is similar

Slant rhyme

500

A line with 6 syllables is called

Iambic Trimeter

500

Alternating lines of 8 and 6 syllables is called...

Common Meter

600

Arthur Sze, Joy Harjo, and Maya Angelou belong to WHICH literary movement?

Postmodernism

600

The poem "O Captain, my Captain!" uses what kind of metaphor?

Extended Metaphor

600

A poem consisting of 3 quatrains of iambic pentameter followed by a rhyming couplet

Sonnet

600
Who wrote "The Road Not Taken?"

Robert Frost