Poetry Quiz Flashcards

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1
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What is poetry written in

A

Verse

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2
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What is poetry made up of

A

Stanzas

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3
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What are the two types of poetry

A

Traditional and organic

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4
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What is a poem’s structure or the way the words are arranged on the page

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Form

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5
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What follows fixed rules and has a regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme

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Traditional Poetry

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6
Q

What is a long narrative poem like The Odyssey

A

Epic

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7
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What is a narrative poem that is written to be recited or sung

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Ballad

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8
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Grouped lines that function like paragraphs in prose

A

Stanzas

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9
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What is A 14-line poem that has a set pattern of rhythm and rhyme

A

Sonnet

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10
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What is a meditative or commemorative lyric poem

A

Ode

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11
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What syllabic pattern do haiku’s follow

A

5/7/5

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12
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How many lines does a haiku have

A

3

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13
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A light or humorous poem with a particular rhyme scheme

A

Limerick

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14
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Organic poetry is all of these EXCEPT

A

Predictable

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15
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What are the two forms of organic poetry

A

Free verse and concrete poetry

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16
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What is Poetry that does not have regular meter

A

Free verse

17
Q

What is poetry that conveys meaning visually through the arrangement of letters and words

A

Concrete poetry

18
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what is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line?

A

Rhythm

19
Q

what enhances the musical quality of a poem?

A

Rhyme

20
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Where does end rhyme happen

A

End of lines

21
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Where does internal rhyme happen

A

in the middle of lines

22
Q

What is a regular pattern of rhythm

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Meter

23
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what is it called when meter is charted

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Scansion

24
Q

What is “ back off from this poem / it has drawn in yr feet / back off from this poem”

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Repetition

25
Q

What is “Which circle slowly with a silken swish”

A

Alliteration

26
Q

What is “ Helpful Harriet handed Hagrid ham”

A

Alliteration

27
Q

What is “ Words shy and dappled, / deep-eyed deer in herds”

A

Assonance

28
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What is “ Whose nest is like a watered shoot”

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Consonance

29
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What consists of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables

A

Feet

30
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How many feet are in the following line?: My heart / is like / a sing / ing bird

A

tetrameter

31
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How many feet are in the following line?: I hold / with those / who fa / vor fire

A

tetrameter

32
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What type of foot is this?: (reSIST)

A

iambic

33
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What kind of foot is this?: (ABsent)

A

trochee

34
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What kind of foot is this?: (GOAL LINE)

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Spondee

35
Q

What is not true about a Shakespearean Sonnet

A

15 line poem

36
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What is A quatrain

A

A 4 line unit

37
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What is a couplet

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a pair of rhyming lines