Poetry Vocabulary

Question 0

Fixed number of stressed syllables but not a fixed total of syllables

Answer 0

Accentual Meter

Question 1

Rhythmic pattern created in a line of verse

Answer 1

Meter

Question 2

Fixed number of total syllables not fixed stressed syllables

Answer 2

Syllabic Meter

Question 3

Both sets of syllables are fixed

Answer 3

Accentual-Syllabic Meter

Question 4

Duration of sounds determines meter

Answer 4

Quantitative Meter

Question 5

Stressed syllable followed by unstressed syllable

Answer 5

Trochee

Question 6

Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Answer 6

Iamb

Question 7

Stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

Answer 7

Dactyl

Question 8

Unstressed syllable followed by two stressed syllables

Answer 8

Analyst

Question 9

Two stressed successive syllables

Answer 9

Sponge

Question 10

Two lightly stressed syllables

Answer 10

Pyrrhic

Question 11

Five feet

Stressed then unstressed

Answer 11

Iambic Pentameter

Question 12

Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

Answer 12

Blank verse

Question 13

Alternating tetra meter and trimeter

Iambic and rhyming

Answer 13

Ballad

Question 14

Does not conform to fixed meter or rhyme scheme

Answer 14

Free Verse

Question 15

Rhyme at the end of a line of verse

Answer 15

End rhyme

Question 16

Rhyme between two or more words

“And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil” “God’s Grandeur” Gerard Manley Hopkins

Answer 16

Internal rhyme

Question 17

Rhyme consisting of a single stressed syllable

Answer 17

Masculine rhyme

Question 18

Consisting of a stressed and unstressed syllable

Answer 18

Femine Rhyme

Question 19

Exact Match of sounds

Answer 19

Perfect Rhyme

Question 20

Imperfect rhyme

Answer 20

Slant rhyme

Question 21

Two successive rhymed lines

Answer 21

Couplet

Question 22

Four line stanza

Answer 22

Quatrain

Question 23

Grouping of three lines

Answer 23

Tercet

Question 24

System of interlocked tercets

Answer 24

Terra Rina

Question 25

A break at the end of a line

Answer 25

End-stopped

Question 26

A sentence or clause runs to the next line without a break

Answer 26

Encampment

Question 27

``` Japanese poetry Three lines Five syllables Seven syllables Five syllables ```

Answer 27

Haiku

Question 28

``` Five lines A-three lines A- three lines B- two lines B-two lines A-three lines ```

Answer 28

Limerick

Question 29

Eight lines of iambic pentameter | Abababacc

Answer 29

Ottawa Rima

Question 30

Six sets of six lines

Answer 30

Setsia

Question 31

Octave and sestet Abba abba cde cde Abba cddc cdc cdc

Answer 31

Petrarchan Sonnet

Question 32

``` Three quatrains and a final couplet Abba Cd do Efef Gg ```

Answer 32

Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 33

Abab Bcbc Cdcd Ee

Answer 33

Spenserian Sonnet

Question 34

19-line poem Five tercets and a final quatrain All carry one of two rhymes Two refrais forming the ends of the tercets and two last lines in the quatrain

Answer 34

Villanelle