Poetry Review Flash Cards

Question 0

On the grasshopper and Cricket

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Type of Poem:Traditional Lyric Poem

Question 1

On the Grasshoper and Cricket

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It’s a poem about comparing the cricket and the grasshopper, and it describes how one of them belongs to summer and, winter
That poetry in never dead earth and life is never dead because the life of the cricket and its song

Question 2

On the Grasshopper and the cricket

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Examples: 
#1- the poetry of earth is ceasing never 
#2- Has wrought a silence from the stove there shrills

Question 3

Ode to Solitude

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It’s about what a man deserves to be happy and love peacefully

Question 4

Ode to Solitude

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Type of Poem:Traditional Lyric Poem

Question 5

Ode to Solitude 
Figurative language 
-rhythm 
-rhyme 
-Assonance

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Examples 
#1- In health of body; peace of mind 
#2- Steal from the world and not a stone

Question 6

Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress toward

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This poem talks about how there was still segregation and black people had less respect for the way they were

Question 7

Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress toward

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Type of Poem: Free Verse Lyric Poem

Question 8

Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress toward

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Examples:
#1- even if your not ready for day it cannot always be night 
#2- The sun slappers, The self Soilers

Question 9

Mother to son

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Is a poem about how it talks about life is about overcoming obstacles, no that life is difficult and we need to know how to survive

Question 10

Mother to son

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Type of Poem: Free Verse Lyric Poem

Question 11

Mother to Son

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Examples: 
#1- Life for me ain't no crystal Stair 
#2- And places with no carpet on the floor

Question 12

It’s all I have to bring today

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Is a poem about the love of nature and the things you have should be cherished

Question 13

It’s all I have to bring today

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Type of Poem: Poems with Reoccurring Themes

Question 14

It’s all I have to bring today

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Examples: 
#1- it's all I have to bring today 
#2- This and my heart beside

Question 15

We Alone (free verse)

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It’s a poem about the value of gold and we should cherish what we are given to take care of

Question 16

We alone

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Type of Poem: Poem of Reoccurring of Themes

Question 17

We Alone

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Examples:
#1- We alone can devaluate gold 
#2- wherever their is gold, their is a chain, you Know

Question 18

The lesson of the moth

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This poem is about how the inner beauty of a moth is when they find their true selves by sacrificing themselves into the light

Question 19

The lesson of the moth

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Type of poem: Free Verse

Question 20

The lesson of the moth

Figurative Language the cockroach is able to talk to the moth and it’s about

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Examples: 
#1- I was talking to a moth 
#2- but as times we get tired of using "it"?.

Question 21

Identity

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Is a poem about finding your true self by letting yourself rather be yourself than someone who is rich and spoiled

Question 22

Identity

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Type of Poem: Free Verse

Question 23

Identity

Compares the flower as being rich and highly been seed as a weed and ugly ignored be yourself

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Examples:
#1- Let them be as flowers 
#2- To have broken through the surface of stone

Question 24

Macavity: The Mystery Cat

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Is a poem about a cat having human characteristics

Question 25

Macavity: The Mystery Cat

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Type of poem: Couplet/ Animal Poem

Question 26

Macavity: The Mystery Cat | Rhyme, Rhythum, Repetition

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``` Examples: #1- he's broken every human law, he brakes the law of gravity #2- and when you reach the scene of a crime Macavity is not there ```

Question 27

Vermin

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The message is that he has a thought in his head about mice and keeps on asking questions and wonder about them

Question 28

Vermin

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Type of poem: couplet/ animal poem

Question 29

Vermin | Rhyme, repetition

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``` Examples: #1-The mouse of thought infects my head #2-no bait, no hope, no cheese, no bread ```

Question 30

Simile: Willow and The Ginko

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Is poem comparing a beautiful tree to a strong and hard tree

Question 31

Simile: The Willow and the Ginko

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Type of Poem: Free Verse Poetry

Question 32

Simile: Willow and The Ginko

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``` Examples: #1- as strong as the ginkgo #2- my heart goes to the Ginkgo because its rough and tough ```

Question 33

Introduction to poetry

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It's a poem about trying to teach the basics of poetry by trying to get along and really get to know your poem

Question 34

Introduction to poetry

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Type of Poem: Free Verse Poetry

Question 35

Introduction to poetry

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Examples: | Repetition the word poem is used consistently