English Poetry Test 1

English Poetry Test 1

50 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

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Author of My Papa's Waltz
Theodore Roethke
Author of Barbra Allen
Anonymous folk ballad
Author of The Griesly Wife
John Manifold
Author of George Gray
Edgar Lee Masters
Author of Deam Deffered
Langston Hughs
Author of Dreams
Langston Hughs
Author of Because I Could not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
Author of Incident in the Rode Garden
Donald Justice
Author of The tunnel
Mark Strand
Author of Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Author of Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare
Author of The Seven Ages of Man
Willam Shakespeare
figurative language
Language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words
simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the words like or as.
metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common. Metaphors do not use the words like or as.