SOUNDS
STRUCTURE
LITERARY DEVICES
TONE
MISCELLANEOUS
100

Sally sells sea shells at the sea shore, surely to see if the sea can secretly sustain Sally. 

Alliteration 
100

Pattern of rhyme throughout stanza or poem.

Rhyme Scheme

100

"GET A JOB!" she barked savagely at her son's sister. 

Implied Metaphor 


100

"And think that I may never live to trace

Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;

And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,

That I shall never look upon thee more,

Never have relish in the faery power

Of unreflecting love—"


“When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be”

John Keats

Reflective, Remorseful, Contemplative, Longing, Sorrowful, Desperate*

100

Shakespeare's favored structure was what?

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Define this structure 

Iambic Pentameter 

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A poem in which each line contains 5 alternating stressed and unstressed syllables

200

“And where are they? I pray you tell.”

Assonance 

200

"Until then, every forest

had wolves in it, we thought

it would be fun to wear snowshoes"

Enjambment 

200

But coffee was his kryptonite; so he swerved across traffic, partially jumping the curb, into the black rock on the way to work. 

Allusion 

200

"Either the Darkness alters -
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight -
And Life steps almost straight."

“We grow accustomed to the Dark” 

Emily Dickinson

Hopeful, Optimistic

200

This is an example of what literary device: "The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved." 

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Ursula K. LeGuin 

Imagery

300

“That lightly draws its breath,

And feels its life in every limb,

What should it know of death?”

Consonance and Assonance 

300

A stanza consisting of 4 lines.

Quatrain
300

"Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,

O anything of nothing first create!

O heavy lightness, serious vanity"


Romeo and Juliet (180?)

Oxymoron 

300

"Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good night” 

Dylan Thomas

Intense, demanding, insistent, rebellious, defiant, judgmental  

300

A purposefully inconsistent rhyme and meter

Free verse 

400

"With a clamor of bells..."

Cacophony 

400

 “The first that died was sister Jane;

In bed she moaning lay,

Till God released her of her pain;

And then she went away."

ABAB

400

"The Eyes around—had wrung them dry—
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset—when the King
Be witnessed—in the Room—" 

Emily Dickinson 

"I heard a Fly buzz—when I died"

Synecdoche

 

400

"American but hyphenated,
viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic,
perhaps inferior, definitely different,
viewed by Mexicans as alien,"


“Legal Alien” 

Pat Mora

Contemplative, confused, disillusioned, frustrated. 

400

The American Flag is a

Symbol

500

"To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them."

Euphony 

500

A tree/ that may/in sum-/mers wear


 

Iambic Tetrameter

Every line has 8 syllables (4 stressed/ 4 unstressed) Stressed and unstressed syllables alternate.

500

"'Merry" and "tragical"? "Tedious" and "brief"? 

That is hot ice, and wondrous strange snow!

 How shall we find the concord of this discord?"


William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream 

Juxtaposition 

500

"The right to make my dreams come true,
I ask, nay, I demand of life;
Nor shall fate's deadly contraband
Impede my steps, nor countermand;
Too long my heart against the ground
Has beat the dusty years around;
And now at length I rise! I wake!
And stride into the morning break!"

“Calling Dreams” 

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Hopeful, confident, assertive, resolved, forceful.  

500

Ms. Hull's favorite drink

Americano with honey