A poem that has no regular rhyme scheme or rhythm is written in ________
What is free verse? Note: repetition should not be confused with rhyming. If the same words are merely repeated at the end of successive lines of poetry, they are not RHYMES. It would still be free verse.
100
A sound device where words actually sound like what they mean. For example, words like bam, splat, screech or chirp.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
This form of poetry originated in Japan and has 3 lines with 17 syllables total composed in a 5, 7, 5 pattern. It is also written (with or without) a rhyme scheme.
What is a haiku; without.
100
A comparison using "like" or "as" is a ______ and a comparison not using "like" or "as" but using "is" or "are" instead is called a _________.
What is simile and metaphor?
100
The name of the high school that generated more African American PhDs (25) in the United States than any other in the first half of the 20th century.
What is Lincoln Normal High School?
200
The beat of a poem; the number of syllables in a line of poetry
What is rhythm?
200
Cleveland Cavaliers, LA Lakers, Birmingham Barons, Tennessee Titans. These team names all use:
What is alliteration?
200
Describe a limerick's structure giving rhyme scheme and number of lines.
What is AABBA, 5 lines? Note: a limerick is meant to be funny, not serious.
200
The central idea or message of a poem that can express ideas about life or human experience.
What is a theme?
200
A famous institution of higher learning which is now in Birmingham, Alabama but was founded originally in Marion.
What is Samford University?
300
A poem that has regular rhythm but no rhyme.
What is blank verse?
300
A poetic device that makes a brief reference to a person, place, historical event or work of art.
What is allusion?
300
A poem that is meant to be sung, tells a story and does not have a hero. It is fairly brief.
What is a ballad? Note: A ballad is different from an epic because epics are longer and usually have a hero.
300
Dr. Martin Luther King's imprisonment when he wrote "Letter from A Birmingham jail was ________ of the way many African American's felt prior to the Civil Rights movement.
What is symbolism or symbolic?
300
The Original Francis Marion's nickname.
What is "The Swamp Fox."
400
The rhyme scheme for the following is ______.
The ills I sorry at
Not me alone
Like an arrow,
Pierce to the marrow,
Through the fat
And past the bone.
What is an example of enjambment in the line above?
What is A,B,C,C,A,B.
Enjambment: 1,2,5.
400
Yo mama is so fat she has to "beep" when she backs up and wears a sign that says "wide load". This is an example of _________ or a synonym would be __________.
What is hyperbole and exaggeration?
400
The poem "In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a mournful poem for the dead. This is an example of a(n) ______ . If you were going to write a poem to put on a tombstone, you would call it a(n) _________.
What is an elegy; epitaph?
400
1)"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
2) "Time is money."
3) "She was a fish in water."
What is an example of: simile (1) metaphor (2) metaphor (3)
400
The original name of Marion, Alabama.
What is Muckle Ridge?
500
The difference between enjambment and end stop is _______ (phrase).
What is enjambment does not end with a punctuation mark, and end stop does?
500
In "Mirror" Sylvia Plath used ________ to bring an inanimate object to life. Name this literary device and give at least 2 reasons why an author would use this in poetry.
What is personification? 1) To allow the reader to see and feel the poetry more easily because humans relate better to human thoughts and feelings 2) Make the poem more dramatic 3) Emotions and objects are made more powerful. For example, in "The Mirror" Mrs. Plath speaks of a mirror as having true power of judgment.
500
Two Parts:
1)The poem “Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France” is a ode. It is an ode because ______ (phrase).
2) How many lines does a Sonnet have?
1)What is it is a poem of praise, praising one particular object or person?
2) What is 14?
500
The difference between imitation and repetition.
What is imitation uses the same structure of a famous work which can often use repetition in successive lines or stanzas, Imitation is not a copy! Repetition is simply the act of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis.
500
The church where Jimmy Lee Jackson was shot that sparked the civil rights movement and the Selma March in 1965.