Classifications of Poetry/Types of Poems

Question 1

canto

Answer 1

a section of a poem

Question 2

couplet

Answer 2

a two-line stanza

Question 3

Haiku

Answer 3

a short rhymeless three-line poem consisting of 17 syllables

Question 4

Heroic couplet

Answer 4

a rhyming two-line stanza in iambic pentameter

Question 5

iamb

Answer 5

a two syllable, one syllable stressed and one unstressed

Question 6

iambic pentameter

Answer 6

a line containing a ten-syllables

Question 7

octave

Answer 7

an 8-line stanza

Question 8

Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 8

divided between an octave, rhyming, and a sestet, rhyming. When written in English, the Petrarchan sonnet uses iambic pentameter.

Question 9

Quatrain

Answer 9

a four-line stanza

Question 10

Sestet

Answer 10

a six-line stanza

Question 11

Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 11

consists of three quatrains. The three quatrains may be used to present three parallel images or the quatrains can offer three points in an argument.

Question 12

sonnet

Answer 12

a form of poetry consisting of 14 lines with a set meter and rhyme scheme

Question 13

Stanza

Answer 13

A section of a poem

Question 14

Tercet

Answer 14

a three-line stanza

Question 15

Terza Rima

Answer 15

Three-line stanzas where the first and last lines rhyme and the middle line begins the rhyme of the next stanza. The entire Inferno is written in terza rima.

Question 16

Verse

Answer 16

concentrated writing that uses a metrical rhythm