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DiYanni:Literature
Literature, 5/e
Robert DiYanni

ELEMENTS OF POETRY

Web Links

These exercises are designed to give you practice in finding useful information online. First read the prompt; then begin your search at Google. If you find yourself at a loss, click on the question and you'll be taken to a matching site.


Can you find online definitions of the terms speaker and tone?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind" in etext?
(http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/crane01.html)

Can you find an online definition of the term diction?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find a website with links to E.A. Robinson's poetry in etext?
(http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/indexauthors.html#R)

Can you find an online definition of the term imagery?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find a poem by Robert Browning that provides an epilogue to his "Meeting at Night...
(http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/browning3.html)

Can you find online definitions of the terms simile and metaphor?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find information about the Judith Wright Prize for Poetry?
(http://www.ibisfoundation.com.au/page1.htm)

Can you find online definitions of the terms symbolism and allegory?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find George Herbert's "Virtue" in etext?
(http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/herbert7.html)

Can you find an online definition of the term syntax?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find Robert Frost's "Love and a Question" in etext?
(http://www.bartleby.com/117/4.html)

Can you find online definitions of the terms rhyme, alliteration, and assonance?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find an overview of Gerald Manley Hopkins' work online?
(http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/hopkins/gmhov.html)

Can you find online definitions of the terms rhythm and meter?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find a bibliography and a photo of Anne Sexton online?
(http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/sexton.html)

Can you find online defintions of the terms closed form and open form?
(glossary_main.htm)

Can you find some Denise Levertov links online?
(http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levertov/levertov.htm)