Technical Terms

  1. Language that appeals to the senses
  2. What is imagery?
  3. A humorous five-line poem that has a regular meter and rhyme scheme
  4. What is a limerick?
  5. A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than or resembles
  6. What is a simile?
  7. An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one is said to be another
  8. What is a metaphor?
  9. A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
  10. What is personification?
  11. Poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme
  12. What is free verse?
  13. The overall emotion created by a work of literature
  14. What is mood?
  15. The use of words with sounds that echo their sense like “bang”
  16. What is onomatopoeia?
  17. A kind of rhythmic compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination
  18. What is poetry?
  19. Regular pattern of rhythm
  20. What is meter?
  21. The pattern of end rhymes
  22. What is rhyme scheme?
  23. A songlike poem that expresses a speaker’s feelings
  24. What is a lyric poem?
  25. A poem that tells a story
  26. What is a narrative poem?
  27. The two types of narrative poems
  28. What are epic and ballad?
  29. A group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song or speech
  30. What is refrain?
  31. The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words close together in a poem
  32. What is rhyme?
  33. Rhyme found at the end of the lines
  34. What is end rhyme?
  35. A rhyme within lines
  36. What is an internal rhyme?
  37. A rhyme that sound similar, but not exactly the same
  38. What is a near rhyme?
  39. A rhyme formed with words that are spelled similarly but not exactly the same
  40. What is a visual rhyme?
  41. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns
  42. What is rhythm?
  43. The voice talking in the poem
  44. What is a speaker?
  45. In a poem, a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit
  46. What is a stanza?
  47. A person, a place, a thing or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well
  48. What is a symbol?
  49. The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject or a character
  50. What is tone?
  51. The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together
  52. What is alliteration?
  53. l;ajdfl;d
  54. What is a haiku?

Authors

  1. A trademark of this author’s style was that he did not use standard punctuation. He also quit capitalizing early in his writing career.
  2. E.E. Cummings
  3. Although this author is often known for his dark tone in his writing, he actually was well known for his love poems.
  4. Edgar Allan Poe
  5. This poet loved music as well as poetry. Once he was writing a blues tune and practicing singing it while walking to work when someone asked him if he was ill because he thought the poet was groaning.
  6. Langston Hughes
  7. This poet was elected as the class poet in elementary school before he wrote his first poem.
  8. Langston Hughes
  9. Many of this author’s poems are homages to some of the great jazz performers including Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong.
  10. Langston Hughes
  11. This author was born in Joplin, Missouri.
  12. Langston Hughes
  13. This poet began writing poetry in college. He stated that after he read some ancient classical poetry, “an unknown and unknowable bird started singing.”
  14. E.E. Cummings
  15. During WWI, this author was an ambulance driver in France.
  16. E.E. Cummings
  17. After a period of imprisonment for a crime he didn’t commit, this author discovered his passion for freedom and personal growth.
  18. E.E. Cummings
  19. Who wrote, “Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than the squarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings;mostpeople are snobs…”
  20. E.E. Cummings
  21. This poet’s writing focuses on the desert’s beauty and the wonder of the southwest region of the United States.
  22. Pat Mora
  23. This poet wrote “Annabel Lee” about his young wife, Virginia, who died of tuberculosis.
  24. Edgar Allan Poe
  25. This British poet, novelist, biographer and essayist was frequently called the most popular writer of this time.
  26. Alfred Noyes
  27. Author of “The Highwayman”
  28. Alfred Noyes
  29. This poet lived from 1880 to 1958. He was one of the few poets of his time able to earn a living by writing poems.
  30. Alfred Noyes
  31. Alive from 1880-1958, this poet wrote with a more traditional style than that common to the era in which television and space travel were introduced.
  32. Alfred Noyes
  33. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, this contemporary poet’s given name is Marguerite Johnson.
  34. Maya Angelou
  35. This contemporary poet has begun careers as a singer, dancer, actor, playwright, magazine editor, civil rights activist and novelist.
  36. Maya Angelou
  37. This author’s works portray themes of courage, perseverance and acceptance of self.
  38. Maya Angelou
  39. This poet speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti in addition to English.
  40. Maya Angelou
  41. This poet is one of the few female members of the Director’s Guild.
  42. Maya Angelou
  43. An ancestor of this poet gave is name to Nashville, Tennessee.
  44. Ogden Nash
  45. What was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s pen name?
  46. Lewis Carroll
  47. This poet was well known for Alice in Wonderland in addition to many nonsense poems.
  48. Lewis Carroll
  49. It was said that this author had “a very uncommon share of genius” by one of his teachers.
  50. Lewis Carroll
  51. From 1855 to 1881, this poet was a member of the faculty of mathematics at Oxford.
  52. Lewis Carroll
  53. This poet is known to have published Euclid and his Modern Rivals as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, his real name.
  54. Lewis Carroll
  1. Best known for his poetry in the world of Children’s Literature, this author was also a cartoonist, composer, lyricist and folksinger.
  2. Shel Silverstein
  3. This beloved author of children’s literature died in 1999 at the age of 66 from a heart attack.
  4. Shel Silverstein
  5. El Paso is the border city to which this current poet’s grandparents came during the Mexican Revolution.
  6. Pat Mora
  7. The New York Times described this poet’s works as “proudly bilingual.”
  8. Pat Mora
  9. This poet’s birth parents were touring actors who died before he was three years old.
  10. Edgar Allan Poe

Other Questions

  1. In the tongue twister, “Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pickled Peppers,” the repetition of the letter “p” is called this
  2. What is alliteration?
  3. “The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor” from The Highwayman is an example of this figure of speech
  4. What is a metaphor?
  5. The first line of Gold by Pat Mora, “When Sun paints the desert with its gold,” is an example of this figure of speech
  6. What is personification?
  7. The underlined word in the line from Jabberwocky that says, “Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,” demonstrates this
  8. What is onomatopoeia?
  9. Mama is a Sunrise by Evelyn Tooley Hunt is an example of this kind of rhyme scheme
  10. What is free verse?

Mama is a Sunrise

Evelyn Tooley Hunt

When she comes slip-footing through the door,

she kindles us

like lump coal lighted,

and we wake up glowing.

She puts a spark even in Papa’s eyes

and turns out all our darkness.

When she comes sweet-talking in the room,

she warms us

like grits and gravy,

and we rise up shining.

Even at nighttime Mama is a sunrise

that promises tomorrow and tomorrow.