English Poetry Words Set 2

Front 1

assonance

Back 1

“Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese”

Front 2

characterization

Back 2

Honest, tall, handsome, angry, cruel, lazy (describing words)

Front 3

complication

Back 3

The King was shot.<=
After that, all hell broke loose.

Front 4

diction

Back 4

An American Southerner saying, "I like my eggs scrambled, please," would pronounce it:
"Ah like mah eggs scrambled, pleez."
~wiki answers

Front 5

foil

Back 5

Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, SHerlock Holmes

Front 6

foot

Back 6

Shall I com PARE thee TO a SUM mer’s DAY?

Front 7

octave

Back 7

1)When I consider how my light is spent
2)Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
3)And that one talent which is death to hide
4)Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
5)To serve therewith my Maker, and present
6)My true account, lest he returning chide,
7)"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
8)I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent

Front 8

couplet

Back 8

1)"Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope
2)Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope."

Front 9

free verse

Back 9

My last night as a full-time child
I didn't want to sleep, for fear of
Waking up in a rustle of too-crisp sheets
And a creak of inadequate bedsprings
With a lightly snoring virtual stranger eight feet away.....
(rythm?)

Front 10

dactyl

Back 10

strawberry, carefully, changeable, merrily
(1,2,3)

Front 11

ballad

Back 11

"When as the sheriff of Nottingham
Was come, with mickle grief,
He talkd no good of Robin Hood,
That strong and sturdy thief."
Excerpt from Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow by an unknown author
(sing it!)

Front 12

blank verse

Back 12

Nothing's changed except me and the facts
And the sadness I didn't mean to start.
But it feels different now you've said
It's wrong, and I still can't see your point.
And I think as water runs over my hands that
That's really all there is or can be.
The gold is wearing off the infamous ring
And something wears away from around my heart.
(No ryhm, but something close)

Front 13

closed form

Back 13

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though.
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Front 14

denouement

Back 14

As the policeman entered the room
to take away the baddie
everything became clear

Front 15

literal language

Back 15

"The dog died" instead of "The dog went to the big farm in the sky."

Front 16

lyric poem

Back 16

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?"
Excerpt from Ode On A Grecian Urn by John Keats

Front 17

narrative poem

Back 17

You tell me it is too early to be looking back,
but that is because you have forgotten
the perfect simplicity of being one
and the beautiful complexity introduced by two.
But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit.
At four I was an Arabian wizard.
I could make myself invisible
by drinking a glass of milk a certain way.
At seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince.

Front 18

open form

Back 18

She was what
she wanted to be because she
wanted to be everything

Front 19

subplot

Back 19

There is the obvious story.
And then there is the hidden one.

Front 20

syntax

Back 20

"Whose woods these are I think I know."