English- Poetry

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of the initial consonant sound in a series of words

Example - “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”

Question 2

assonance

Answer 2

the repetition of vowel sounds

Example - “It was a late fake that made the play work”

Question 3

Concrete imagery

Answer 3

describes the tangible or physical

“The hawk floated below the clouds looking for prey.”

Question 4

Abstract imagery

Answer 4

deals with ideas and emotions and describes the intangible

“An aura of apprehension pervaded the room as if a terrible secret were to be revealed.”

Question 5

Blank verse

Answer 5

unrhymed iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line, with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)

Question 6

consonance

Answer 6

the repetition of consonant sounds

“A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”

Question 7

connotation

Answer 7

associations a word or phrase carries beyond literal meaning

Question 8

denotation

Answer 8

the literal meaning of a word or phrase

Question 9

dramatic monologue

Answer 9

a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character; it compresses into a single vivid scene a narrative sense of the speaker’s history and psychological insight into his character.

Question 10

Meter

Answer 10

rhythm or pattern of stressed syllables in a line of poetry

Question 11

Types of meter determine how many feet, or syllables are in a line

Answer 11

Types of meter determine how many feet, or syllables are in a line
Monometer = 1 foot
Dimeter = 2 feet
Trimeter = 3 feet
Tetrameter = 4 feet
Pentameter = 5 feet (or 10 syllables) and so on

Question 12

Foot

Answer 12

measurement in which a line is broken down into
2 types of feet
Iambic = unstressed + stressed (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)
Anapest = unstressed + unstressed + stressed (“on the foot of my bed”)

Question 13

Scansion or to “scan” a poem

Answer 13

mark lines for stressed syllables.

Question 14

Accentual syllabic

Answer 14

poetry written with fixed number of syllables per line and a fixed pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 15

Haiku

Answer 15

(rules for haiku in English)

1. Japanese form, 3 lines, 17 syllables, (5-7-5)
2. Subject is Nature
3. Present tense
4. Specific event, not a generalization

Question 16

Sonnet

Answer 16

14 line lyric, usually making an argument about love

Question 17

English/Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 17

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
3 quatrains and 1 couplet
Quatrain = four line stanza couplet = 2 consecutive rhyming lines
Turn (or volta) point where argument shifts (not in all sonnets)

Question 18

Italian/Petrachan sonnet

Answer 18

Octet (or octave) 8 lines split into two quatrains
Sestet (6 line stanza - split into two tercets, or 3 line stanzas)
Octave asks a question and sestet answer or solves the problem

Question 19

Haibun

Answer 19

A form which combines one or more paragraphs of imagistic prose with one or more haikus.
There is a subtle, usually indirect relationship between the prose and the haiku
The prose, like the haiku, is present tense, concrete, and paints the picture of the scene
The haiku usually follows the prose and captures the essence of the scene or experience

Question 20

Villanelle

Answer 20

French form, 19 lines
5 tercets - ABA followed by one quatrain = ABAA
There are 2 repeated lines, line 1 = lines 6,12, and 18 line 3 = lines 9,15, & 19

Question 21

Sestina

Answer 21

39 line poem, six 6 line stanzas, followed by a 3 line envoy (or conclusion)
There are 6 repeated end words that follow a specific pattern,
The end words 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in one stanza will be 6, 1, 5, 2, 4, 3 in the next

Question 22

Limerick

Answer 22

5 line humorous poem, often about the peculiarities of a persona and often bawdy.
Rhyme scheme = AABBA
The A lines are anapestic trimeter (unstressed unstressed stressed x 3)
(When he sits on the foot of my bed”)
And the B lines are anapestic dimeter (unstressed, unstressed, stressed x 2)
(“I’d not mind that he speaks”)

Question 23

Found poetry

Answer 23

Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.