Poetry Stubblefield

Ozymandias:
- Date
- Author

- 1820
- Percy Shelly

Ozymandias:
- Explain Poem

- A traveller from Egypt found a statue and tells what it looks like. He found it buried in the sand broken.

What is the repitition of similar vowel sounds?

- Assonance

What is what the word suggests?

- Connotation

What is when you mean what you say?

- Denotation

What is word choice and arrangement?

- Diction

What is a hyperbole?

- when you stretch the truth so far it is not taken seriously

What is imagery?

- when you use words that appeal to the senses

What is it called when the result is different than expected?

- irony

To an Athlete Dying Young:
- Date
- Author
- Any figurative lang.

- 1896
- A. E. Housman
- today, the road all runners come, metaphhor

What is a metaphor?

- a comparison of two unlike things not using "like" or "as"

What is a monolouge?

- speech by one person

What is the use of one word that suggests a sound?

- Onomatopoeia

To an Athlete Dying Young:
- Is this a Christian Worldview
- Explain Poem

- No
- A runner dies at his highest point. The poet says you cannot stay the hero for ever.

What is personification?

- When you give an object characteristics of a human

What is a similie?

- The comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening:
- Date
- Author

- 1923
- Robert Frost

What is the mood called?

- tone

Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening:
- Explain Poem

- A man stops in a woods while it is snowing because it is so beautiful. He wishes he could stay, but need to get to a place where he can sleep.

What is a long narritive poem that tells the deeds of a hero?

- epic

Knoxville, TN:
- Author
- Date

- Kikki Giovanni
- Late 1900's

Hollow Men:
- Date
- Author
- What collection is this Poem from

- 1922
- T. S. Elliot
- The Wastelands

Hollow Men:
- paradox, first stanza
- What did the eyes represent

- hollow and stuffed men
- souls