Poetry

Question 1

What is a couplet?

Answer 1

Two lines in a stanza.

Question 2

What is a stanza?

Answer 2

A verse or paragraph in a way.

Question 3

What is a tercet?

Answer 3

Three lines in a stanza.

Question 4

What is 3 lines in a stanza called?

Answer 4

A tercet.

Question 5

What is a rhyme scheme?

Answer 5

Where a poem has a set rhyming pattern.

Question 6

Give an example of an ABAB rhyme scheme about cats, dogs, hats and logs (random I know)

Answer 6

There was a cat
There was a dog
The cat was like a hat
The dog was like a log.
Anything where lines 1and 3 rhyme and where lines 2 and 4 rhyme.

Question 7

What is 4 lines in a stanza called?

Answer 7

A quatrain.

Question 8

What is a couplet?

Answer 8

Two lines in a stanza.

Question 9

What is a quatrain?

Answer 9

Three lines in a stanza.

Question 10

What is one line in a stanza called?

Answer 10

A monostich.

Question 11

What is a monostich?

Answer 11

One line in a stanza.

Question 12

How many lines does a haiku have?

Answer 12

Three.

Question 13

How many stanzas does a haiku have?

Answer 13

One.

Question 14

How many syllables does a haiku have in total?

Answer 14

17

Question 15

How many syllables does a haiku have in the first line?

Answer 15

Five.

Question 16

How many syllables does a haiku have in the second line?

Answer 16

Seven.

Question 17

How many syllables does a haiku have in the third line?

Answer 17

Five.

Question 18

What is a haiku traditionally about?

Answer 18

Nature.

Question 19

Where do haikus originate from?

Answer 19

Japan.

Question 20

Who’s a famous Japanese poet from the 17th century?

Answer 20

Matsumoto Bashō

Question 21

What did Matsumoto Bashō write?

Answer 21

The haiku ‘an old pond’

Question 22

What is an elegy poem normally about?

Answer 22

Loss and sadness

Question 23

What rhyme scheme do elegy’s normally have?

Answer 23

ABAB

Question 24

Does an acrostic poem rhyme?

Answer 24

No not always

Question 25

What is the main part of an acrostic poem?

Answer 25

They have the theme of the poem spelt with letters throughout the poem.

Question 26

Who is Benjamin Zephaniah?

Answer 26

A Jamaican-English poet and author.

Question 27

What do you normally have at the start of an analytical paragraph?

Answer 27

A topic sentence.

Question 28

What do you call an example that you have taken from the text?

Answer 28

A quote (although don’t say, ‘this quote shows’ because that’s wrong xxx)

Question 29

What is a synonym for shows?

Answer 29

Highlights, accentuates, reinforces, emphasises, evokes

Question 30

What should you name when talking about a quote?

Answer 30

The poetic devices.

Question 31

What is a metaphor?

Answer 31

Where you say two different things ‘are’ each other.

Question 32

What is a simile?

Answer 32

When you compare two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Question 33

What should you have at the end of an analytical essay?

Answer 33

The main message of the poem or text, and a reference back to your topic sentence.

Question 34

What does ambiguity/ ambiguous mean?

Answer 34

When something has two different meanings or interpretations.

Question 35

Who is ‘Happy Birthday Moon’ by?

Answer 35

Raymond Antrobus

Question 36

What is different in a way about Raymond Antrobus?

Answer 36

He is deaf, and in his poem ‘Happy Birthday Moon’, he talks about a special moment he shared with his dad.

Question 37

What is it called when you are colourblind?

Answer 37

Monochromacy

Question 38

Who wrote, She belongs to the world?

Answer 38

Mandy Coe

Question 39

What is different about ‘She belongs to the world’?

Answer 39

It is multilingual, and describes an animal in a different language every time.

Question 40

What animal is, ‘she belongs to the world’ about?

Answer 40

A butterfly

Question 41

What is butterfly in Spanish, from ‘she belongs to the world’?

Answer 41

Mariposa

Question 42

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 42

Where you use words that, when you pronounce them, sound like the sound it is making, for example: splash

Question 43

What is auditory imagery?

Answer 43

When you describe sounds to make the reader feel like they can really hear the setting.

Question 44

What is visual imagery?

Answer 44

When you describe something’s appearance so that the reader feels like they can easily picture it.