9 week test.2 Flashcards
Dream Deferred by
Langston Hughes
The Cloud by
Percy B. Shelley
The Meadow Mouse by
Theodore Roethke
The Fawn by
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Day is Done by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose by
Emily Dickinson
Mending Wall by
Robert Frost
The Death of Sennacherib by
George Gordon
Jazz Fantasia by
Carl Sandburg
Eldorado by
Edgar Allan Poe
Next by
Ogden Nash
Sonnet 55 by
William Shakespeare
Poem describes a war veteran who still has ideals to pursue
The Face in the Mirror
a tribute to the legendary baseball player, Satchel Paige
To Satch
contrasts ancient ships and their valuables with a modern ship and its unexciting necessities
Cargoes
tells about a Native American who moves to the city and loses much of his dignity and status since he has no vision
Without Title
asks for someone to read passionate poets to him to relax him
The Day is Done
contrasts the sunrise and the sunset
I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose
tells how we often erect offensive barriers against others
Mending Wall
could be interpreted as the Christian’s quest for heaven
Eldorado
contrasts the sound of a desolate place with the noise of civilization
The Shell
claims that we sometimes have divine inspirations
The Sound of the Sea
has an unusual speaker, a cloud explains everything
The Cloud
visually demonstrates the options of what could happen
dream deferred
appeals to all our senses except for touch
Our House in Hadong
contrasts a peaceful situation with a dangerous one
The Meadow Mouse
peaceful setting and diction creates a relaxing mood
the space
powerful metaphor causes us to become fearful
moon tiger
the moon is told to leave the city and share its light with flowers
the song of the moon
poem has a rhythm of anapestic tetrameter
the death of sennacherib
presents life as a journey
eldorado
has unusual rhymes
next
has a strong contrast - freedom from the sea but death on shore
Starfish
an Italian sonnet
The Sound of the Sea
is written in lines like the swimmers would swim
400 meter Freestyle
gives us a sense of slow going by spacing
the time we climbed snake mountain
poem uses much parallelism
psalm 96
his poems are some of America’s most humorous
Ogden Nash
his poems celebrated everyday life and average people
won 2 Pulitzer Prizes
Carl Sandburg
his poems have wit and wisdom and have won 4 Pulitzer Prizes
Robert Frost
she wrote thousands of poems but they were published posthumously
emily dickinson
most famous American poet in the 1800s
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
his poetry was practical and realistic and caused a new kind of American poetry
Langston Hughes
speaker
who or what is saying the poem - often the poet
diction
choice of words
denotative
literal meaning
connotative
additional symbolic meanings
poet laureate
official chosen poet of a place for a year
imagined pictures or sensations with real vivid wording
imagery
subjective description
including your own thoughts and feelings
objective description
factual details
simile
a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using a word such as like as or then to suggest the similarity
metaphor
points out a resemblance between two things without like or as
parallelism
repeated words, expressions, and thoughts
personification
gives human qualities to something nonhuman
symbols
part of our everyday lives that enables a writer to compress a very complex idea or set of ideas into one image or word
iamb
ta DA ta DA ta DA ta DA …..
anapest
ta ta DA ta ta DA ta ta DA ta ta DA
pentameter
5 syllables per line
tetrameter
4 syllables per line
onomatopoeia
the sound of a word imitates a natural sound
alliteration
the repetition of consonant sounds - usually beginnings
assonance
repetition of vowel sounds
Italian sonnet
14 lines
8 lines, 6 lines
abbaabbacdecde
octave
eight lines
sestet
six lines
English sonnet
3 quatrains and a couplet
ababcdcdefefgg
quatrains
4 line stanzas
couplet
a pair of rhyming lines
stanza
group of lines
free verse
no fixed rhythm, rhyme scheme, or line length
