Poetry Things
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- 3. A modernist avant-garde movement which primarily focuses on seven aspects: intuition, analogy, irony, abolition of syntax, metrical reform, onomatopoeia, and essential/synthetic lyricism
- 5. An anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement which used shock, nihilism, negativity, paradox, randomness, subconscious forces, anti-poetry and antinomianism to subvert established traditions
- 7. Words that sound alike, especially words that end in the same sound.
- 9. A three-line poetic form originating in Japan.
- 11. Poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form.
- 16. A repeated line within a poem, similar to the chorus of a song.
- 17. A word that emulates the sound it is describing. Examples include “woof” and “ping pong.”
- 20. Beloved children's poet best known for his books The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends
- 21. American poet best known for his work The Raven
- 23. American poet who wrote upwards of 2,000 poems in her lifetime but only published 10
- 24. Basic unit of a poem; measured in feet if metrical.
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- 1. An intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in New York City and spanning the 1920s and 1930s
- 2. Famous English poet known for his sonnets and plays
- 4. A poem that reflects upon death or loss.
- 6. Close repetition of consonant sounds, especially initial consonant sounds.
- 8. American poet whose famous works include The Road Not Taken and Fire and Ice
- 10. Group of lines making up a single unit; like a paragraph in prose.
- 12. A lengthy, narrative work of poetry.
- 13. Stanza of 2 lines; often, a pair of rhymed lines.
- 14. A 14-line poem, typically (but not exclusively) concerning the topic of love.
- 15. Ancient Greek poet known for the epic works The Iliad and The Odyssey
- 16. A artistic and intellectual movement originating towards the end of the 18th century that elevated several key themes such as a reverence for nature and the supernatural, an idealization of the past as a nobler era, a fascination with the exotic and the mysterious, and a celebration of the heroic and the sublime.
- 18. One of American history’s most decorated, celebrated and accomplished poets known for her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- 19. The beat and movement of language
- 22. Unit of measure in a metrical line of poetry.