7th Grade Poetry Unit 2

To penetrate and come to understand.

American poet. Won three Pulitzer prizes. Sometimes wrote imagist poems. Sometimes wrote free-verse.

Type of meter used by Emily Dickinson consisting of alternating lines of 8 and 6 syllables. Used in church hymns.

How many syllables are in a line that is written in iambic pentameter?

Reclusive American poet. One of the most influential of 19th-century. Influenced by Puritanism and Book of Revelation.

This African poet was an enslaved person who became the first published African-American. They were a child prodigy.

Type of meter most frequently used in classic sonnets. Used by both Shakespeare and Claude McKay

Literary movement from 1900s until 1940s. Rebelled against clear-cut story-telling and formulaic poetry. "Make it new."

Reflects light showing various colors.

Type of meter used by Homer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and modern rappers.

The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry.

Largest and most wide spread civil rights movement by Mexican-descent people in the United States.

(of an action or situation) causing shame or a loss of honor.

American poet and physician. Imagist poet who wrote sympathetically about domestic themes.

Tending to not speak much.

Recent American poetry movement. Return to metrical, rhymed verse and narrative poetry.

Six feet, six beats per line

lack of self-confidence

American poet and translator of Ancient Greek and Latin texts. Part of the New Formalism Literary Movement.

The action of giving a name to a person or thing.

This American poet was the child of migrant farmers. They are a former U.S. Poet Laureate.

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. The speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss.

American poet. Pulitzer prize winner. Former U.S. Poet Laureate. Used African-American sounds, styles, images, & idioms.

Not easily excited or emotional; calm

American poet works in free-verse and traditional forms. Writes novels in verse. Former U.S. Poet Laureate.

Which pattern of meter uses one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. (three syllables per per foot)

American poet and Harlem Renaissance figure. Inspired by Walt Whitman. Depicted working-class Black Americans.

(of a state, quality, or emotion) very great or intense; the vast depth of the ocean or the mind. 

Jamaican-American poet. One of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Wrote about racial and economic injustice.

Arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is as important in conveying meaning as verbiage.

supreme power or authority.

 A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables. 

Poetry movement that recreates the physical experience of an object trhough words. Rejected 19th-century poetry.

Very Careful and with great attention to every detail.

Meter consists of two components: the number of syllables and _______.

Poetry movement that emerged after World War II. Influenced by surrealism and jazz. It rejected academic formalism.

Which pattern of meter uses one stressed syllable followed by a unstressed one. (two syllables per per foot)

Which pattern of meter uses one unstressed syllable followed by two stressed ones. (three syllables per per foot)

Marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream.

Showing a child's pleasure in enjoying oneself and making trouble.

expressing something forcibly and clearly.

Which pattern of meter uses one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. (two syllables per per foot)

The development of a neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century.

Stories written using poetry instead of the usual sentence and paragraph form with poems from different point-of-views.

(of an animal, esp. horse) nervous or excitable; easily scared; (of a person) playfully frivolous or unpredictable