How many syllables for this metrical rhythm?
A line of iambic pentameter contains this many syllables per line of poetry.
What are 10 syllables?
The group of lines in poetry.
What is stanza/verse?
"Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
He did a lazy sway...
He did a lazy sway..."
- The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
The following song lyric contains this figure of speech...
"Take my hands, my dear, and look me in the eyes
Just like a monkey I've been dancing my whole life."
What is simile?
"Just like a monkey"
This is the title and writer of the poem containing the following lines...
"Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?"
What is "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
A line of dactylic trimeter contains these many syllables per line of poetry.
What are 9 syllables?
What is rhyme?
The following passage of poetry contains this sound device...
"He made that poor piano moan with melody."
- "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
What is alliteration?
The following song lyric contains this figure of speech...
"There's a calm surrender to the rush of day
When the heat of a rolling wind can be turned away"
What is personification?
Describing the "day" with the adjectives "calm" and "rushed"
This is the title and writer of the poem containing the following lines...
"There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head
That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved, so I said,
'Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.'"
What is "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake?
A line of trochaic hexameter, contains these many syllables per line of poetry.
What are 12 syllables?
The repetition of sounds produced by vowels within a sentence or phrase.
What is assonance?
The following passage of poetry contains this sound device...
"And far into the night he crooned that tune"
- "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
What is assonance?
The following song lyric contains this figure of speech...
"I said, ooh, I'm drowning in the night
Oh, when I'm like this, you're the one I trust"
What is metaphor?
By "drowning in the night," he is referring to being alone and the light of life (love) being "absent" from his world.
This is the title and writer of the poem containing the following lines...
"When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;"
What is "When I have Fears" by John Keats
A line of spondaic tetrameter contains these many syllables per line of poetry.
What are 8 syllables?
A poem's pattern of repeated rhythm.
What is meter?
The following passage of poetry contains this sound device...
"Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon."
- "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
What is consonance?
The following song lyric contains this figure of speech...
"The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless, longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
What is simile?
...Also, this lyric contains a mythological allusion.
This is the title and writer of the poem containing the following lines...
"When she I loved looked every day
Fresh as a rose in June,
I to her cottage bent my way,
Beneath an evening-moon."
What is "Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known" by William Wordsworth
What are 15 syllables?
*Note: Pentameter doesn't always mean 10 syllables. Iambs are worth 2 syllable counts; whereas, Anapests are worth 3 syllable counts. Pentameter just means that the cycle of rhythm gets repeated five times, so if a two-syllable rhythm gets repeated five times, there are 10 syllables per line, but if a three-syllable rhythm gets repeated five times, there are 15 syllables per line.
The repetition of sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
What is consonance?
The following passage of poetry contains this sound device...
"Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor."
- "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
What is onomatopoeia?
The following song lyric contains examples of this figure of speech...
"I take this magnetic force of a man to be my my lover.
My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue."
What are metaphors?
- By referring to her lover as a "magnetic force," she is comparing the bond of romantic love to the magnetism that brings precious metals together.
- "[Her] heart's been borrowed" is a metaphor symbolizing past relationships where her heart has been the temporary property of another.
- "[His] has been blue" is a metaphor symbolizing either the sadness of loneliness or previous breakups.
This is the title and writer of the poem containing the following lines...
"One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;"
What is "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron?