Poetry Review

What time of your life would the twilight of a day represent?

"Pow, bang, buzz, bam" are examples of _____.

Which of the following is NOT a sonnet format we studied?

Ideas that flow from one line to the next with no pause are called ___.

Words that imitate sounds are called __.

In "Mother to Son" the staircase has splinters and board torn up. What does this represent?

"The cloud sang like a playful lark flitting through the sky" is an example of ___.

In "The River" by Garth Brooks, the river represents what?

What type of poem is the following?

In "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," the caged bird was a symbol of what?

What type of poem is the following?

The feeling created in the poem is the _______.

When punctuation indicates a pause at the end of a line of poetry, it is called ______.

"Suzy sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of what?

What is the tone of the following: "Stark naked flower stalks stand shivering in the wind."

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem creates its ____

Language from a specific region (like the Southern slang in "Mother to Son") is called?

"I went to town to buy a gown. / I looked around with a frown." Where is the internal rhyme?

"He ran as fast as a cheetah" is an example of which?

How many lines are in a cinquain?

Rhyming words in the same line is called _____.

Repetition of end sounds in words is called ___

Something that represents or stands for another thing.

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was an example of which?

William Carlos William's poem "This is Just to Say" was an example of ___.

Which time of your life would spring represent?

A poem that has the same elements that a short story does.

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?

What kind of poem is the following?

"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes was an example of which type of poem?

"The sun crept over the hill cautiously..." is an example of which?

Repetition of beginning sounds in words is called ___

A 3-lined Japanese poem about nature.

Language that appeals to our senses is called ___.

Groups of lines that work together in a poem.

What might a road in a poem represent?

Poem written in the shape of its subject.

What is a three-lined stanza called?

Repetition of the same lines in a poem.

Poem that has no rules, no regular pattern.

What is the rhyme scheme of all limericks?

What color might symbolize feelings of sadness?

Musical poem, like a song.

The most common meter in all of poetry is which of the following?

"The field was an endless desert of crusted earth" is an example of ___.

What is a 7-lined stanza called?

Words not meant to be taken literally are called __________.

Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

The speaker's attitude toward the topic is called the _______.

The voice talking in a poem is called the ___

Temperate and date do not rhyme exactly. What do we call this type of rhyme?

Comparison of 2 items (no "like" or "as").

What is a four-lined stanza called?

What kind of poem is the following?

Comparing 2 items using "like" or "as".

Giving something non-human some human characteristics is called ___.

What kind of poem is this?

A 14-lined poem with a regular rhyme scheme, usually abab, cdcd, efef, gg