Poetry Month

What are the rules of free verse?

• They have a rhyme scheme but no rhythmic meter.
• They have no rules to follow. 
• They have no rhyme requirements but must follow a rhythmic scheme.
• They must be about heartbreak and hard times. 

A ballad is a...

• a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• story/narrative in poetic form.

• a single line of poetry.

• the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.

Theme is...

• A story/narrative in poetic form.

• the central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.

• The author's specific word choice.

• The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!"

What is the rhyme scheme?

• AABBCC

• ABABAB

• ABCABC

• AABCBC

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author

• Speaker

• Narrator

• Main character

What is "alliteration"?

• The use of synonyms to show emphasis

• Words that sound alike.

• An exaggeration of the situation to give a dramatic effect.

• The repetition of the beginning sounds of nearby words.

Which detail from the following excerpt of the poem "Casey at the Bat" contains assonance?

Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell

It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;

It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,

For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

• "five thousand throats"

• "It rumbled through the valley"

• "It pounded on the mountain"

• "there rose a lusty yell"

Read the following excerpt of "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles.

Which detail from the excerpt contains alliteration?

• “sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand”

• “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame”

• “conquering limbs astride”

• “Mother of Exiles.”

Read this excerpt from “Barbara Allen”:

In Scarlet town, where I was born,

There was a fair maid dwellin’,

Made every youth cry Well-a-way!

Her name was Barbara Allen.

All in the merry month of May,

When green buds they were swellin’,

Young Jemmy Grove on his death-bed lay,

For love of Barbara Allen.

Based on this excerpt, what is one reason why “Barbara Allen” is considered a ballad?

• It is set to music.

• It takes place in England.

• It recounts a historic battle.

• It tells a story about a person.

A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of _______.

• seven stanzas.

• two limericks in a row.

• four quatrains and a couplet.

• three quatrains and a couplet.