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Poetry Flashcards

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What are the main forms of narrative verse?

A

Epic and ballad

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What type of poetry is one of the simplest forms, because there is only one basic rule: the poem must tell a story

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Narrative

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2
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Narrative poems can be…

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Funny, sad, or solemn

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3
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Do narrative poems ryme

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They may or may not

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4
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What poem is a song

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Ballad

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5
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How long are a ballads stanzas

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Short and four lines

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What is the rhyme scheme of a ballad

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Abcd

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7
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What subjects do ballads usually deal with

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Folk lore or popular legends

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What is a long serious poem in an elevated style

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Epic

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What does an epic tell the story of

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The life and works of a heroic or mythological figure

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What are two famous examples of the epic genre

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The Iliad and the odyssey

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What is a five line poem that’s meant to be funny with rhythm

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Limerick

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What is the rhyme scheme of a limerick

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Aabba

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True or false, the rhythm is just as important as the rhyme in a limerick

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True

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How many beats do lines 1 2 and 5 have in a limerick

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9

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Lines 3 and 4 of a limerick usually have how many beats

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6

16
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Which last words rhyme in a limerick

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The last words of 1 2 and 5 and 3 and 4

17
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Which line in a funny limerick contains the punch line

A

The last line

18
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What is a short poem with one speaker who expresses thought and feeling. The emotion is or seems personal and may be complex and intense

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Lyric poetry

19
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True or false, in Ancient Greece the lyric poem was written to be sung, accompanied by a lyre

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True

20
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What are examples of lyric poetry

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The elegy, ode, and sonnet

21
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What is a Japanese poem with no rhyme that can be about anything

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Haiku

22
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How many lines do haiku poems have

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3

23
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How many syllables do each line in a haiku have

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First line 5
Second line 7
Third line 5

24
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What is a lyric poem that Shakespeare was known for

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Sonnet

25
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How many lines does a sonnet have

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14

26
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Does a sonnet have a fixed rhyme scheme

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Yes

27
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How many syllables are in each line of a sonnet

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10

28
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What rhyme scheme is at least Shakespeare’s sonnet

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Abab, c d c d , e f e f, gg

29
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What is poetry that is written without proper rules about form, rhyme, pattern, etc.

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Free verse

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