Poetry - Part II Matching 

Match the terms with their definitions. 

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A line of verse in poetry that is made up of five pairs of short/long or unstressed/stressed syllables.  

An English short-story writer, poet, novelist, winner of Nobel Prize of Literature in 1907 who was known for writing The Jungle Book.  

An Irish writer and poet who became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s and was best known for writing The Importance of Being Ernest.  

An American poet, essayist, journalist, and part of the transition between transcendentalism (religious and philosophical movement) and realism.  

An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist, and inventor of jazz poetry.  

An American Poet Laureate, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.  

An American poet who lived in isolation with her family, was  influenced by the Metaphysical (bold, intellectual) English poets of  the 17th century, and wrote forty hand bound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems, which were later discovered and published.  

a. Maya Angelou 

b. Emily Dickinson 

c. Oscar Wilde 

d. Langston Hughes 

e. Rudyard Kipling 

f. Walt Whitman 

g. iambic pentameter 

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