Intro to Poetry

Poetry is..

• boring

• too complicated

• old- fashioned

• deep

• interesting

Answer explanation

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Robert Frost

"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar." Percy Bysshe Shelley

English Poet (1792-1822)

Poetry always has rhyming words

• true

• false

Answer explanation

Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry.

"An Ode to Coffee" by Kelly Roper

Beautiful brown liquid steaming in my cup,

Becoming a muddy river as I stir in the cream.

The aroma that gives me courage,

The flavor that tastes like hope for a better day,

And the energy that renews my will to live.

Tomorrow morning we'll do it all again my friend.

This poem is an example of

• free verse

• a sonnet

• an ode

• a dramatic monologue

Answer explanation

Free verse poems will have no set meter, which is the rhythm of the words, no rhyme scheme, or any particular structure. Some poets would find this liberating, being able to whimsically change your mind, while others feel like they could not do a good job in that manner. Robert Frost commented that writing free verse was like "playing tennis without a net."

William Shakespeare is famous for his

• odes

• haikus

• sonnets

• lyrical poems

Answer explanation

The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Also called Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that...

• assigns the qualities of a person to something that isn't human or that isn't even alive

• happens when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence.

• compares two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses)

• is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.

Answer explanation

My teacher is a dragon.

a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.

• sonnet

• dramatic monologue

• epic

• shape poem

Answer explanation