Poetry Review

My sister and I had a friendly fight is a

"She has all my love; my heart belongs to her," is an example of _________.

A poem has a _____________meter when the beat sounds like DUM-da. A strong syllable is followed by a weak syllable.

Where should the reader look for the speaker in "Song of Myself"?

The repetition of vowel sounds. Often, assonance can create rhymes or near-rhymes within lines is called

He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.—From Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle" is

The repetition of beginning consonant sounds is called

__________ is a poem's rhythm, or the pattern of strong and weak syllables.

Which description best fits Death in "Because I could not stop for Death-"?

"My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.” This is an example of __________.

When a poem has neither a regular rhythm nor a rhyme pattern it is written in _______ _________.

A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases to make an idea more memorable is called

In "I Hear America Singing" the speaker expresses the differences of Americans by describing

"Hear the mellow wedding bells" by Edgar Allen Poe is an example of ___________.

"Her smile was a mile wide. His stomach is a bottomless pit." These sentences are examples of

A poem has an _________ meter when the beat sounds like da-DUM. A weak syllable is followed by a strong syllable.

_______________refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse is called

An example of Dickinson's inventive punctuation is the __________ in the middle or at the end of a line in the

 "It was the beginning of the end" is a ___________.

“And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them" is a __________.

Emily Dickinson is known for using _______ rhymes. Rhymes that are close, but not exact.

In part 6 of "Song of Myself," the speaker sees the grass as

When language sounds like what it talks about it is called

What is the tone of "I Hear America Singing"?

The repetition of words or sequences of words at the beginning of multiple phrases, sentences, or lines is called

Walt Whitman is known as the __________ of free verse.

Sometimes poets use exaggerated statements or claims called ___________.

In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," Dickinson describes death as

Clearly misunderstood is an example of ________.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches

The only rule is there are no rules is an example of _________________.

In "Song of Myself," the speaker says that the grass is an equalizer of people because it

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.