Elements of Poetry

What is litotes?

"In the Orchard" is written in

Hyperbole is

How many lines are in a sonnet?

Pentameter means

When a word inside a line rhymes with another word inside the same line it is called

One person speaking in a poem is called

Find an example of personification.

What do we call a poem that does not have set rhyme or set rhythm?

How many lines of poetry are in a quatrain?

How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?

What does the flounder symbolize for Trethewey?

Vivid descriptions of sounds is called

How many lines are in an octave?

What do we call words that kinda, sorta rhyme?

Which of the following phrases is an example of alliteration?

Meter refers to a poetic line's

Which of the folloing phrases contains an allusion?

Who does Vespertina Cognitio mean?

In English poetry, which is the most common meter?

Which poet laureate of the United States is cousin to a former Lausanne English teacher Raquel Rivera?

Which of the following phrases is a simile?

What is the rhyme scheme of an Italian sonnet?

Metonomy is

What are line units within a poem called?

The name Laura is a trochee. Identify the symbols below for a trochee.

What is "the narrow fellow in the grass" in the Dickinson poem of the same name?

Natasha Trethewey won which award?

Which word is iambic?

Which of the following sentences is an example of personification?

Which answer is a symbol for an iamb?

A Shakespearean Sonnet is also called

Which sentence contains an example of onomatopoeia?

A Shakespearean sonnet has two stanzas.

Blank Verse is

The speaker in a poem is

A two-line stanza that rhymes is called

What are the last two lines of this poem? "We real cool. We left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin,

When a word inside a line rhymes with another word inside the same line it is called