Poetry

Question 1

a 14-line poem that includes three, four-line stanzas and a concluding couplet. It follows the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

Answer 1

Shakespearean sonnet

Question 2

In this rhyme scheme, the first and third lines rhyme at the end, and the second and fourth lines rhyme at the end following the pattern ABAB for each stanza. This rhyme scheme is used for poems with four-line stanzas.

Example:

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!— For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Answer 2

Alternate rhyme

Question 3

a lyric poem that follows the rhyme scheme ABABBCBC. These typically have three, eight-line stanzas and conclude with a four-line stanza. The last line of each stanza is the same.

Example:
And, sometimes on a summer’s day To self and every mortal ill We give the slip, we steal away, To walk beside some sedgy rill: The darkening years, the cares that kill, A little while are well forgot; When deep in broom upon the hill, We’d rather be alive than not.

Answer 3

Ballade

Question 4

a two-line stanza that rhymes following the rhyme scheme AA BB CC, or a similar dual rhyming scheme.

Example:
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet18”

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Answer 4

Coupled rhyme,

Question 5

In this rhyme scheme, all the lines in a stanza or entire poem end with the same rhyme.

Example:

Silent Silent Night Quench the holy light Of thy torches bright
For possess’d of Day Thousand spirits stray That sweet joys betray
Why should joys be sweet Used with deceit Nor with sorrows meet
But an honest joy Does itself destroy For a harlot coy

Answer 5

Mono rhyme

Question 6

In this rhyme scheme, the first and fourth lines and the second and third lines rhyme with each other in an enclosed rhyme scheme. The pattern is ABBA.

Example: (John Milton, “Sonnet VII”)

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol’n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew’th.

Answer 6

Enclosed rhyme

Question 7

These poems follow a rhyme scheme of ABCB throughout the entire poem.

Example: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (excerpt)

It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. ‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?

Answer 7

Simple 4-line rhyme

Question 8

a set of three lines in a stanza that share the same end rhyme.

Example:

William Shakespeare, “The Phoenix and the Turtle”
Truth may seem, but cannot be Beauty brag, but ‘tis not she Truth and beauty buried be

Answer 8

Triplet

Question 9

An Italian form of poetry that consists of tercets. It follows a chain rhyme in which the second line of each stanza rhymes with the first and last line of the subsequent stanza. It ends with a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the penultimate stanza. The pattern is ABA BCB CDC DED EE.

Answer 9

Terza Rima

Question 10

A five-line poem with rhyme scheme AABBA.

Answer 10

Limerick

Question 11

A type of poem with five three-line stanzas that follow a rhyme scheme of ABA. It concludes with a four-line stanza with the pattern ABAA

Answer 11

Villanelle

Question 12

contains two-line stanzas with the “AA” rhyme scheme, which often appears as “AA BB CC and DD…

Answer 12

Couplet

Question 13

often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of “AAA.

Answer 13

Triplet

Question 14

Poetry term for stanza

Answer 14

Tercet

Question 15

A verse or full poem with 4 lines

Answer 15

Quatrain

Question 16

a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem

Answer 16

Meter

Question 17

Sonnets use what type of rhythmic pattern?

Answer 17

Iambic Pentameter

Question 18

Describe Iambic Pentameter.

Answer 18

the line has 10 syllables in 5 pairs. In each of these pairs the emphasis is on the second syllable like a heartbeat.

Question 19

formation of a word which describes its sound’. Examples of onomatopoeic words include sizzle, clap, moo, roar, etc.

Answer 19

Onomatopoeia

Question 20

a series of words, occurring close together in the phrases or lines of poetry, that have the same first consonant sound. Peter Piper is a good example.

Answer 20

Alliteration

Question 21

The repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes.

Examples include: crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; and, the kind knight rides by.

Answer 21

Assonance

Question 22

the author’s use of description and vivid language, deepening the reader’s understanding of the work, by appealing to the senses.

Answer 22

Imagery

Question 23

This term names something by describing it’s qualities in a two word compound expression (often consisting of a noun and a verb made into a noun using an -er ending) for example: mouse catcher = cat.
Ankle biter = dog

Answer 23

Kenning

Question 24

A poem in which the calligraphy, the formation of the letters or the font selected, represents an aspect of the poem’s subject, as in: thin (written in a very thin font), ancient (looking crumbling and old) or growth (with each letter written in a progressively larger font size). A poem about fear might be written in shaky letters to represent trembling. This font choice supports the reading of the poem by emphasising the meaning of particular words.

Answer 24

Calligram

Question 25

poetic device defined as a metrical foot in a line of a poem that contains three syllables wherein the first two syllables are short and unstressed, followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed.

For example: “‘Twas the night before Christmas”

Answer 25

Ana-East

Question 26

English poetry use what 5 types of meter?

Answer 26

Iambic, Trochaic, Spondaic, Anapestic, & Dactylic

Question 27

Describe Iambic meter.

Answer 27

First syllable unstressed, second syllable stressed.

Example:

Example #1: Twelfth Night (By William Shakespeare)
“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets …”

Question 28

Meter that has stressed first syllable, unstressed second syllable:

Example:

The Explosion (By Philip Larkin)
“Shadows pointed towards the pithead:
In the sun the slagheap slept.
Down the lane came men in pitboots
Coughing oath-edged talk and pipe-smoke
Shouldering off the freshened silence.”

Answer 28

Trochaic

Question 29

Meter that has stressed first and second syllable. You can easily identify this type of meter because it contains both stressed syllables: “Cry, cry! Troy burns.”

Answer 29

Spondaic

Question 30

Meter that has unstressed first and second syllables and stressed third syllable

Example:

“Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;

Answer 30

Anapestic

Question 31

Meter that has stressed first syllable, unstressed second and third syllables.

Example:

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!

Answer 31

Dactylic

Question 32

a form of language that has no formal metrical structure. It applies a natural flow of speech, and ordinary grammatical structure, rather than rhythmic structure, such as in the case of traditional poetry.

Answer 32

Prose