Poetry

Question 1

What is poetry?

Answer 1

Series of images or pictures

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Repetition of consonant sounds

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

Repetition of similar sounds

Question 4

Ballad

Answer 4

Song that tells a story

Question 5

Blank verse

Answer 5

Unrhymed iambic pentameter, five iambs, unstressed - stressed.

Question 6

Couplet

Answer 6

Two consecutive lines that form a unit. Usually rhythm or rhyme.

Question 7

Epic

Answer 7

Long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger than life hero who embodies the values and ideals of a particular culture or society usually contains a council of gods.

Question 8

Imagery

Answer 8

Language that is appeals to the senses site hearing touch smell taste.

Question 9

Lyric poetry

Answer 9

Expresses motion, but does not tell a story

Question 10

Onomatopoeia

Answer 10

Use of word whose sound imitates or suggests meaning

Question 11

Refrain

Answer 11

Repeated word, phrase line, or group of lines

Question 12

Rhythm

Answer 12

Musical quality produced by repetition of beats

Question 13

Soliloquy

Answer 13

Long speech in which a character voices his or her thoughts to the audience

Question 14

Stanza

Answer 14

Group of consecutive lines paragraph that forms a single thought

Question 15

Beats

Answer 15

Regular pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 16

Meets are measured in….

Answer 16

Feet one stress syllable, one or more stress syllables

Question 17

Iamb

Answer 17

Unstressed stressed

Question 18

Trochee

Answer 18

Stressed unstressed

Question 19

Ana pest

Answer 19

Two unstressed one stressed

Question 20

Dactyl

Answer 20

One stressed two unstressed

Question 21

Spondee

Answer 21

Two stressed adds emphasis

Question 22

Dimeter
Trimeter
Tetrameter
Pentameter

Answer 22

Two
Three
Four
Five

Question 23

Rhyme

Answer 23

Repetition of extended vowel sounds and all sounds following usually at the end of a line

Question 24

End rhyme

Answer 24

Ab an abc abc abab cdcd efef

Question 25

Internal rhyme

Answer 25

Rhyme is within the lines “ the warm sun is failing the black wind is wailing”

Question 26

Approximate rhyme

Answer 26

Some similar, which is not rhyme exactly produces a drop, knocking the reader off balance. (Blade, blood flash flesh)

Question 27

Sonnet

Answer 27

14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, mimics the speaking pattern of conversational English

Question 28

Italian sonnet

Answer 28

8 lines (octave) – abba abba followed by six lines (sestet) – cde cde
•Usually projects and develops an idea in the octave, then releases the tension of that idea in the sestet

Question 29

English sonnet

Answer 29

3 four-line (quatrain) units followed by a two-line (couplet) unit – usually abab cdcd efef gg
•Introduces an idea in the first quatrain, complicates it in the second quatrain, complicates it still further in the third quatrain, then resolves it in the couplet