Poetic Terms
What is a line of poetry called?
What is a verse?
How many hydrogen atoms are in one molecule of water?
What is 2?
What is a rhyme at the end of lines called?
What is End Rhyme?
What poetic device compares two things using “like” or “as”?
What is a Simile?
Who wrote “Constantly Risking Absurdity”?
Who is Lawrence Ferlinghetti?
What is a group of lines called?
What is a stanza?
When is the UC application due?
When is December 1st?
What’s a rhyme within a single line called?
What is Internal Rhyme?
“The poet like an acrobat” is an example of what?
What is a Simile?
In the poem, the poet balances on this to illustrate the challenge of creating art.
What is a high wire?
What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables called?
What is a meter?
What is Mr. Salvadore's first name?
Who is John?
What’s the rhyme pattern of AABB called?
What is a couplet rhyme scheme?
What device gives human qualities to ideas or objects?
What is Personification?
What job does the poet compare himself to in the poem?
Who is an acrobat?
What do we call the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words?
What is Assonance?
What is a baby goat called?
What is a kid?
Give one example of any rhyming word pair.
What is (Any example, like “day” and “play”)?
What device repeats consonant sounds at the start of words?
What is Alliteration?
What is the main theme of the poem?
What is The risk and art of writing poetry / The balance between truth and performance?
What do we call a word that imitates the sound it describes, like buzz or crash?
What is Onomatopoeia?
Who won homecoming queen/king?
Who is Naomi?
What two things does Ferlinghetti compare the poet to in “Constantly Risking Absurdity”?
Who is an acrobat and a performer?
“Balancing on eyebeams” is an example of what literary device?
What is a Metaphor?
Ferlinghetti often writes poetry in this style, which is free and conversational rather than strictly rhymed.
What is free verse?