Exam 3

Question 1

-a poem in which the first letter of the first word of each line spells out a name or a message when read from top to bottom down the page

Answer 1

acrostic

Question 2

-a poem that is about another work of art (such as a painting or sculpture)

Answer 2

Ekphrastic

Question 3

-a type of poem meant to mourn a death

Answer 3

elegy

Question 4

-a quotation placed at the beginning of a poem to help set the context for the poem

Answer 4

epigraph

Question 5

-a unit of rhythm in a poem that consists of one strong beat plus one or two weak beats. The unit repeats in a very regular pattern throughout the poem

Answer 5

Foot

Question 6

-a type of poem that is lacking both rhyme and meter

Answer 6

free verse

Question 7

-a type of 17 syllable poem, originating in Japan, that portrays one or more strong images and is usually about nature. The syllables are broken into 3 lines of 5, 7, 5

Answer 7

Haiku

Question 8

-the most common type of meter in English-language poetry.

Answer 8

Iambic Pentameter

• pent means 5
• iamb is a poetic foot

Question 9

In iambic pentameter:

Answer 9

the first syllable is weakly stressed

second syllable is strongly stressed

Question 10

-a situation where the normal word order of a sentence is changed around for greater poetic emphasis

Answer 10

Inversion

Question 11

-a type of poem, usually short, that expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of one speaker

Answer 11

lyric poem

-most of today’s poems are lyric

Question 12

-a specific type of rhythm that repeats the same pattern of (1 strong beat + 1 or 2 weak beats) all the way throughout the poem

Answer 12

Meter

Question 13

-a type of poem that tells a story

Answer 13

Narrative Poem

Question 14

-a word that sounds like a noise made by the thing it represents

Answer 14

Onomatopoeia

Question 15

-a satirical imitation of a particular writer’s style, or of a particular work of literature

Answer 15

Parody

Question 16

-a type of poem that looks like a paragraph of prose on the printed page, but which is considered a poem because of the presence of poetic devices

Answer 16

Prose Poem

Question 17

-a word whose sound suggests two different meanings

Answer 17

Pun

Question 18

-a line or a phrase that is repeated word for word or in slightly altered form, one or more times in a poem

Answer 18

refrain

Question 19

-a type of poem that has 14 lines and one of the 2 following rhyme schemes

Answer 19

Sonnet

Question 20

-first 8 lines baobab, next 6 lines cdecde or a variation like cdcede

Answer 20

Petrarchean

Question 21

ababcdcdefefgg

Answer 21

Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 22

-a gouping together of lines in a poem, separated from one or more other stanzas by spaces between them

Answer 22

Stanza

Question 23

• a central subject or idea that ties a literary work together;

Answer 23

Theme

Question 24

-a type of poem that has 19 lines and 2 refrains (A1 and A2) in the rhyme scheme

Answer 24

Villanelle

A1bA2 abA1