Poetry

Question 1

Blank verse

Answer 1

unrhymed but has a strict rhythm; often used by Shakespeare

Question 2

Caesura

Answer 2

complete pause in a line of poetry or music; can be in the form of a dropped syllable

Question 3

Couplet

Answer 3

closed form of poetry; a 2-line stanza that usually has an end rhyme

Question 4

Dactyl

Answer 4

a foot of 3 syllables in which the first is long or stressed and the next two are unstressed or short

Question 5

Free verse

Answer 5

poetry form free from limitations of regular meter and rhythm and does not rhyme in fixed forms
Ex: Emily Dickinson

Question 6

Quatrain

Answer 6

4-line stanza

Question 7

Rhyme royal

Answer 7

7-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets

Question 8

Scansion

Answer 8

process of marking lines of poetry to show type of feet and number of feet they contain

Question 9

Sestet

Answer 9

6-line unit of verse constituting stanza or section of a poem; last 6 lines of an Italian sonnet

Question 10

Sprung rhythm

Answer 10

poetic rhythm designed to imitate rhythm of natural speech; constructed from feet in which first syllable is stressed and may be followed by variable number of unstressed syllables

Question 11

Spenserian stanza

Answer 11

stanza used by Spenser in The Faerie Queene, consisting of 8 iambic pentameters and an alexandrine, with the rhyming scheme ababbcbcc

Question 12

Terza rima

Answer 12

3-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc

Question 13

Trochaic pentameter

Answer 13

pattern of stressed - unstressed (2 syllables) repeated 5 times

Question 14

Strophe

Answer 14

first section of ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it; structural division of poem containing stanzas of varying line-length, esp an ode or free verse poem

Question 15

Cadence

Answer 15

natural rhythmic rise and fall of language as it is normally spoken

Question 16

End rhyme

Answer 16

rhyming words that fall at the ends of 2 or more lines

Question 17

English sonnet

Answer 17

14-line lyric poem consisting of 3 quatrains and a couplet and written in iambic pentameter, usually rhymed abab cdcd efef gg

Question 18

Enjambment

Answer 18

aka run-on line in poetry; occurs when one line ends and continues onto next to complete the meaning

Question 19

Exact or true rhyme

Answer 19

words that end in both same vowel and same consonant

Question 20

Foot

Answer 20

one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables; in a line, 8 are possible

Question 21

Formal verse

Answer 21

poetry that follows fixed patterns

Question 22

Heroic couplet

Answer 22

pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter

Question 23

Internal rhyme

Answer 23

rhyming words placed within a line

Question 24

Italian sonnet

Answer 24

lines divided into group of 8 (octet) and group of 6 (sestet)

Question 25

Refrain

Answer 25

repetition of line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, particularly at end of each stanza