Features of poetry

Question 1

A type of literature in which
words and rhythm are strung together to form sounds, images, and ideas that might be too
complex or abstract to describe directly.

Answer 1

Poetry

Question 2

A part of poem with similar
rhythm and rhyme that will
usually repeat later in the
poem.

Answer 2

Stanza

Question 2

A subdivision of a poem which is composed of
words lined in a row.

Answer 2

Line

Question 3

It refers to where an author has chosen to end one line of a poem and begin another.

Answer 3

Line break

Question 4

The author has chosen to end a line without completing a sentence or clause.

Answer 4

Enjambment

Question 5

A line that completes a sentence or clause.

Answer 5

End-stopped line

Question 6

Words that end with similar sounds, usually at the end of a line of
the poem.

Answer 6

Rhyme

Question 7

A rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern.

Answer 7

Meter

Question 8

5 types of rhyme

Answer 8

• Perfect rhyme
• Consonant rhyme
• Assonant rhyme
• Head rhyme
• Eye rhyme

Question 9

When the final stressed vowel and all following sounds of two words are identical.

Answer 9

Perfect rhyme

Question 10

When there are rhyming consonants in words with different vowel sounds.

Answer 10

Consonant rhyme

Question 11

When there are rhyming vowels in words but with different consonant sounds.

Answer 11

Assonant rhyme

Question 12

When there are same initial
consonant at the beginning of the words.

Answer 12

Head rhyme

Question 13

Measuring unit in poetry

Answer 13

Foot

Question 13

When the words are similar in
spelling but not similar in sound.

Answer 13

Eye rhyme

Question 14

Rhymes may occur at the ending words of lines in a poem. In this case, occurrence of these rhymes follows a pattern which is known as _______________.

Answer 14

Rhyme scheme

Question 15

Combination of unstressed and stressed syllable

Answer 15

Iamb

Question 16

Combination of stressed and unstressed syllable

Answer 16

Trochee

Question 17

Combination of stressed and two unstressed syllables

Answer 17

Dactyl

Question 18

Combination of two unstressed and a stressed syllable.

Answer 18

Anapest

Question 19

Combination of unstressed, stressed, and unstressed syllable

Answer 19

Amphibrach

Question 20

A metrical foot with a “stressed-weak” syllable pattern, like the word “tro-chee” itself.

Answer 20

Trochee

Question 21

The term “trochee” originated from the greek word “____________,” originally from the phrase “________________,” which means “_____________________.”

Answer 21

Trokhaios, trokhaios pous, falling or tripping foot

Question 22

A three-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which two unstressed
syllables are followed by a stressed syllable.

Answer 22

Anapest

Question 23

It is much older; they were commonly used in ancient Greek poetry.

Answer 23

Dactyl

Question 23

____________ is the root word of ‘‘dactyl,’’ meaning ‘‘__________.’’

Answer 23

Daktylos, finger

Question 24

This refers to the attitude that the
poet takes toward his/her subject.

Answer 24

Tone

Question 25

The emotional effect to the readers
that the author’s attitude as well as the use and the choice of the words he employed into his poem.

Answer 25

Mood

Question 26

It creates mental images
about the poem’s subject.

Answer 26

Imagery

Question 27

It talks about the central idea,
the thought behind what the poet wants to convey.

Answer 27

Theme

Question 28

A poem often conveys feelings, thoughts and ideas using symbols.

Answer 28

Symbolism

Question 29

A stanza consisting of 2 lines.

Answer 29

couplet

Question 30

A stanza consisting of 3 lines.

Answer 30

Tercet

Question 31

A stanza consisting of 4 lines.

Answer 31

Quatrain

Question 32

A stanza consisting of 5 lines.

Answer 32

Cinquain

Question 33

A stanza consisting of 6 lines.

Answer 33

Sestet

Question 34

A stanza consisting of 8 lines.

Answer 34

Octave

Question 34

A stanza consisting of 7 lines.

Answer 34

Septet

Question 35

Limerick rhyme scheme

Answer 35

AABBA

Question 35

Terza rhyme scheme

Answer 35

ABA BCB CDC DED

Question 35

A stanza consisting of 14 lines.

Answer 35

Sonnet

Question 36

Who wrote “Upon Julia’s clothes”?

Answer 36

Robert Herrick

Question 37

Rhyme scheme used for “Upon Julia’s clothes.”

Answer 37

Triplet rhyme scheme

Question 38

Who wrote the poem entitled “Scorn not the Sonnet”?

Answer 38

William Words Worth

Question 39

Imagery is the representation of the ____________.

Answer 39

five senses