The Private Dining Room
How many men are present in the poem?
What is two?
Cat & Rat
What is rhyme?
A humorous, rhyming, five line poem with specific rhythm and rhyme.
What is a limerick?
Yellow like the sun.
What is simile?
Ogden Nash
This was broken on the evening in question.
What is a candelabara?
Splat!
What is onomatopoeia?
A three lined poem with the syllables 5-7-5.
What is a haiku?
Buzzzzzz!
What is onomatopoeia?
A literary device in which a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself also adds meaning or stands for something else.
What is symbolism?
This color seems to glow more and more as story or the lines of the poem unfold.
What is lavender?
A brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. Possibly drawn from history, literature, popular culture, or religion.
What is allusion?
A poem that tells a story in verse.
What is a narrative poem?
I've read that manga 1,000 times!
What is hyperbole?
This British dramatist also wrote fourteen line poems called sonnets -- a type of which became named after him.
Who is William Shakespeare? (The Shakespearean Sonnet.)
Mufti
What is another term for civilian clothing?
Wendy walked while weeping.
What is alliteration?
Poetic verse with no rules whatsoever. The lines can be irregular and may or may not rhyme. The poet exercises total freedom.
What is free verse?
The fog crept along the boardwalk and surrounded the sleeping buildings.
What is personification?
A grouping of lines, together.
What is a stanza?
This is what the names Lalage and Barbara have in common.
What is the repetition of the first consonant sounds or syllables in their names?
The line of cars was a river of steel and glass and frustrated drivers.
What is metaphor?
A pair or a couple of lines that rhyme directly.
What is a couplet?
When the consonant sounds in a pair of unrhyming words are the same, such as Rafferty and taffeta.
What is consonance?
The narrator of a poem is often referred to as this, due to the fact that the poet isn't always writing about himself or herself.
What is the speaker of the poem?