Poem/Prose Form - Wednesday Quiz

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Extended metaphor with two meanings

Question 2

Intercalary chapters

Answer 2

Inserted to speak in a general way

Question 3

Frame narrative

Answer 3

A tale within another tale

Question 4

Dramatic monologue

Answer 4

Spoken to the reader/listener

Question 5

Spenserian sonnet

Answer 5

14-line poem written in abab bcbc cdcd ee

Question 6

Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 6

14-line poem written in abab cdcd efef gg

Question 7

Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 7

14-line poem with one octave and one sestet

Question 8

Stream of conscience

Answer 8

Unbroken flow of thought

Question 9

Hymn

Answer 9

Song of praise to God

Question 10

Pastoral

Answer 10

Presenting an idealized imagine of rural life

Question 11

Sermon

Answer 11

Religious or moral talk

Question 12

Sestina

Answer 12

6-line stanzas with a 3-line envoy, repeating six words

Question 13

Elegy

Answer 13

Mournful/reflective poem

Question 14

Eulogy

Answer 14

Praises something or someone

Question 15

Soliloquy

Answer 15

Speaking thoughts aloud to no one

Question 16

Lyric

Answer 16

Short poem of songlike quality

Question 17

Ode

Answer 17

Story designed to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson

Question 18

Satire

Answer 18

Ridiculing something in order to bring about change

Question 19

Free verse

Answer 19

Unrhymed lines with no fixed pattern

Question 20

Blank verse

Answer 20

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 21

Haiku

Answer 21

17 syllables with 5/7/5 break down

Question 22

Ballad

Answer 22

Tells a story, often with a refrain/chorus

Question 23

Grotesque

Answer 23

Comedy and tragedy mixed

Question 24

Parable

Answer 24

Intended to teach a lesson

Question 25

Didactic

Answer 25

Highly expressive poem of elaborate/irregular meter

Question 26

Couplet

Answer 26

Two rhyming lines

Question 27

Tercet

Answer 27

Three rhyming lines

Question 28

Quatrain

Answer 28

Four rhyming lines

Question 29

Quintain

Answer 29

Five rhyming lines

Question 30

Sestet

Answer 30

Six rhyming lines

Question 31

Septet

Answer 31

Seven rhyming lines

Question 32

Octet

Answer 32

Eight rhyming lines

Question 33

Villanelle

Answer 33

19 lines divided into 6 stanzas

Question 34

Terza rima

Answer 34

Tercets written with chain rhyme

Question 35

Prosody

Answer 35

Study of poetic structure