Poems and Poetry
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
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c
h
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W
g
t
United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans
2.
L
a
g
s
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n
H
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United States writer
5.
W
h
t
e
y
American poet who was the first recognized Black writer in America
12.
F
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V
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Unrhymed ___ without a consistent metrical pattern
13.
H
i
k
An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
14.
B
a
l
a
A narrative song with a recurrent refrain
15.
S
o
n
n
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
16.
R
o
d
e
A French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes
20.
T
n
e
A pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
21.
R
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r
a
n
The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers
22.
M
u
i
Sounds put together in songs and tunes