Poets
Figurative Language
Meter
Form
MISC
100

Matsuo Basho wrote which form of poem?

Haiku
100

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

An extended metaphor

100

A meter with lines of ten syllables, stressed and unstressed, is called

Iambic pentameter

100

A poem lacking clear meter or rhyme scheme

Free Verse

100

How many lines are in a quatrain?

4

200

Walt Whitman was called "The Father of..."

Free Verse

200

Giving human traits to nonhuman things is called...

Personification

200

A meter of poetry consisting of six syllables, stressed and unstressed, is called

Iambic trimeter

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?

Ada Limon

300

An indirect comparison using "like" or "as"

Simile
300

A meter of poetry consisting of eight syllables, stressed and unstressed, is called

Iambic tetrameter

300

A poem consisting of three lines in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern

Haiku
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
An "iamb" is a...
a metrical foot consisting of two syllables: one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.


400

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

Sonnet

400

Repeating the beginning of a phrase is called...

Anaphora

500

Robert Frost belongs to which literary movement?

Modernism
500

A work that contains a underlying meaning or is largely represents to a historical/political event is called an...


Allegory

500

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

Common Meter

500

Poetry written and formatted almost like a short story

Prose poetry

500

Repeating the same consonant sounds is called...

Alliteration