Quiz 5 Flashcards
In one sentence, define “speaker” in poetry.
The speaker in poetry is the voice of the poem. Who the poem is coming from. Poem originates from the speaker who is explaining something to the audience.
Image
Image is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off any of the 5 senses. Elicit senses to fully grasp the authors meaning.
Metaphor
Speaking of one thing in terms of another without using like or as
Free vs Blank Verse Poetry
Blank verse poems has no rhyme and are always written with a precise meter and rhythm. Free verse poetry has no set rhyme, scheme, or meter.
prose poetry
Prose poetry is written in sentences or paragraphs instead of lines/stanzas. There is no set rhythm or meter.
slam poetry
Slam poetry is when the author performs their work with an audience present. Written in free verse, has a beat, uses poetic tools, engages with the audience and makes it a performance. Themes tend to be political or controversial and are often personal.
How does poetry draw inspo from oral tradition
Scholars believe that poetry was originally an oral art used as a way to tell stories, history, news, laws, etc.
-Things that rhyme are easier to remember
-Helped spread information to those who are illiterate
-Played a large role in religion/mythology in ancient times
The only way it could be carried was through spoken word. Story telling in the form of words
List any three Indigenous poets whose work we read in Week 9
Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdich
List any three African American poets whose work we read in Week 10.
Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, Natasha Tretheway
Who wrote the Poet X
Elizabeth Acevado
True or false: every poem has an audience.
T
True or false: “near rhyme” and “exact rhyme” mean the same thing.
F
True or false: poetry is rooted in oral tradition.
T
True or false: the speaker of the poem is always the poet themselves.
F
True or false: The Harlem Renaissance took place in the late 1700s.
F
