Poetic Styles and Genres [This is exclusively associated with poetry]

Question 1

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 1

Pattern of a poem’s rhyme. In analyzing a poem, the reader marks the rhyme capital letters; each identical letter is a rhyme.

Question 2

Identify this rhyme scheme “There once was a very small teacher Diminutive, minuscule creature Who stood every day at the board and would say ‘Had a date once, but I couldn’t reach ‘her”

Answer 2

This limerick has an AABBA rhyme scheme

Question 3

Meter

Answer 3

rhythm of a poem. THE BIG/GOLDEN TICKET ITEM HERE IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER

Question 4

iamb pentameter

Answer 4

a metrical foot of two syllables with the accent on the second syllable Marie (YES) Mary (NO not an iamb) five

Question 5

Iambic Pentameter

Answer 5

5 iambs per line “To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells”(John Keats via wikipedia)

Question 6

Couplet

Answer 6

two consecutive rhyming lines in a poem AABBCCDD

Question 7

Heroic Couplet

Answer 7

Has AABBCCDD rhyme structure but decides to up the game by ALSO USING IMABIC PENTAMETER (AHHHH) try to emulate epics

Question 8

Identify the name of this rhyme scheme: “There is a bird I’ve often heard Who likes to drink Out of a sink”(Kaplan)

Answer 8

Couplet

Question 9

Identify the name of this rhyme scheme: “There is a grand, majestic bird, I think Who sucks the living waters from the sink, And then with pinions through the azure skies He pauses–dabs his beak–and on he flies”

Answer 9

Heroic Couplet

Question 10

Sonnet

Answer 10

14 lines of iambic pentameter and a specific rhyme scheme. Serious, usually discursive poem that deals with a unified idea in very little space You will probably see at least one on the test

Question 11

Blank Verse

Answer 11

unrhymed iambic pentameter Often used by Renaissance playwrights [Shakespeare] but goes up to Robert Frost

Question 12

Sprung Rhythm

Answer 12

A variety of set meters and a complex rhyme scheme. Fun fact: Gerard Manley Hopkins developed it in 19th century Uneven

Question 13

Free Verse

Answer 13

no regular rhyme schemes or meter

Question 14

Ode

Answer 14

An ode praises something still in existence

Question 15

Identify what Poetic Style this is: “The world is charged with the grandeur of G-d. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Brownie Points if you can guess the author

Answer 15

Sprung Rhythm Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 16

Identify this poetic style “This lady I know Delightful In the light She soothes my Soul Marks everything Half off”

Answer 16

Free verse

Question 17

Identify this poetic style “When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.” Guess the author

Answer 17

Sonnet shakespeare

Question 18

“Thou still unravished bride of quietness Thou foster child of silence and slow time Sylvan historian….” This would be best categorized as a(an)

Answer 18

ode

Question 19

Elegy

Answer 19

Honors someone dead

Question 20

Ballad

Answer 20

narrative poem usually has a tragicomic tone tends to have 4 line long stanzas with an ABCBDEFE rhyme scheme

Question 21

Concrete Poetry

Answer 21

Also called emblematic poetry, forms its words into pictures on the page, which generally relate to the theme

Question 22

This poem is best categorized as a(an):

Answer 22

concrete poem

Question 23

The following poem is best categorized as a(an):

“Sir Horsbreth held his sword up high;

It glistened like uranium.

But heavy was it also, as

It dropped upon his cranium”

Answer 23

A ballad