Poetry

Question 1

A natural pause within a line of poetry

Answer 1

Caesura

Question 2

Which era does the KJV belong in?

Answer 2

Jacobean

Question 3

A poem or stanza of four lines, in which lines 2 and 4 rhyme and have a similar # of syllables.

Answer 3

Quatrain

Question 4

Which era does High Pink on Chrome belong in?

Answer 4

Postmodern era

Question 5

Who wrote Jabberwocky?

Answer 5

Lewis Carrol

Question 6

What is the oldest surviving English text?

Answer 6

Caedmon’s Hymn

Question 7

Which bust did the raven perch itself upon?

Answer 7

Pallas Athena

Question 8

Which famous novel was written by Sir Walter Scott in the Romanticist era?

Answer 8

Ivanhoe

Question 9

Ben Jonson’s “On My First Daughter” is written in which era?

Answer 9

Jacobean

Question 10

Which frumious creature is the child told to shun in The Jabberwocky?

Answer 10

Bandersnatch

Question 11

What type of sonnet has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?

Answer 11

Shakespearean

Question 12

What is the analysis of metrical patterns in poetry?

Answer 12

Scansion

Question 13

In which poem does graphic space or visual arrangement play a central role in both design and meaning

Answer 13

Visual or concrete

Question 14

Which eras or periods in literature includes many works from Shakespeare?

THERE ARE 2!

Answer 14

Elizabethan and Jacobean

Question 15

Rhyming words in their accented vowels

Answer 15

Assonance

Question 16

A sonnet with various rhyme schemes but composed of an octave and a sestet

Answer 16

Italian/Petrarchan

Question 17

Exaggeration used for emphasis, but not meant to be taken literally

Answer 17

Hyperbole

Question 18

A verse that follows a regular meter but does not rhyme

Answer 18

Blank Verse