Poetry Part II

1. The firecracker sounded with a loud BOOM!

Rhyme

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

2. The use of words that imitate the sound of something is called __________________.

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Rhyme

3. The basic rhythmic structure of a verse in poetry is called ___________________.

Meter

Rhyme

Alliteration

4. A(n) ______________ is figurative language made up of two or more elements that contradict themselves.

Free verse

Meter

Oxymoron

5. Combining pieces of information to form an idea is called __________________.

Synthesizing

Rhythm

Alliteration

6. Which of the following terms means an arrangement of words that have the same beginning consonant?

Alliteration

Free verse

Rhyme

7. Which of the following is a line of verse in poetry that is made up of five pairs of short/long or unstressed/stressed syllables?

Alliteration

Iambic pentameter

Free verse

8. Which of the following was an English short-story writer, poet, novelist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907? He was also known for writing The Jungle Book.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Rudyard Kipling

Walt Whitman

9. Which of the following was an American poet, lived in isolation with her family, influenced by the Metaphysical (bold, intellectual) English poets of the 17th century, and wrote forty hand bound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems, which were later discovered and published?

Jane Austen

Willa Cather

Emily Dickinson

10. Which of the following was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, and inventor of jazz poetry?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Langston Hughes

William Faulkner

11. Which of the following was an Irish writer, poet, one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s, and was best known for writing The Importance of Being Ernest?

Walt Whitman

Oscar Wilde

H. G. Wells

12. Which of the following was an American Poet Laureate, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist?

Maya Angelou

Agatha Christie

Emily Bronte

13. Which of the following was an American poet, essayist, and journalist? He was part of the transition between transcendentalism (religious and philosophical movement) and realism.

Walt Whitman

Edgar Allen Poe

Victor Hugo

Poetry Part II

1. The firecracker sounded with a loud BOOM!

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. The use of words that imitate the sound of something is called __________________.

3. The basic rhythmic structure of a verse in poetry is called ___________________.

4. A(n) ______________ is figurative language made up of two or more elements that contradict themselves.

5. Combining pieces of information to form an idea is called __________________.

6. Which of the following terms means an arrangement of words that have the same beginning consonant?

7. Which of the following is a line of verse in poetry that is made up of five pairs of short/long or unstressed/stressed syllables?

8. Which of the following was an English short-story writer, poet, novelist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907? He was also known for writing The Jungle Book.

9. Which of the following was an American poet, lived in isolation with her family, influenced by the Metaphysical (bold, intellectual) English poets of the 17th century, and wrote forty hand bound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems, which were later discovered and published?

10. Which of the following was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, and inventor of jazz poetry?

11. Which of the following was an Irish writer, poet, one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s, and was best known for writing The Importance of Being Ernest?

12. Which of the following was an American Poet Laureate, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist?

13. Which of the following was an American poet, essayist, and journalist? He was part of the transition between transcendentalism (religious and philosophical movement) and realism.