Types Of Poetry:

Question 1

Satire:

Answer 1

A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change (ex: modest proposal, animal farm, the lottery)

Question 2

Sonnet:

Answer 2

A poem of 14 lines using a number of formal rhyme schemes

Question 3

Italian/Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 3

Octave,sestet: ABBA ABBA CDC DCD

Question 4

English/Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 4

Quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet : ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Question 5

Spenserian sonnet

Answer 5

Quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet : ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

Question 6

Ballad:

Answer 6

A form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by a dramatic or exciting episode in fairly short narrative; poem writing in song like stanza form. (Ex: sir Patrick Spens, Bonny Barbara Allen, get up and bar tw door)

Question 7

Epic

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A long maritime poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society. (Ex. Beowulf)

Question 8

Elegy:

Answer 8

A poem of mourning

Question 9

Pastoral:

Answer 9

Love or lives of shepherds

Question 10

Free verse:

Answer 10

Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme

Question 11

Blank verse

Answer 11

Poem with no rhyme or iambic pentameter

Question 12

Narrative

Answer 12

A spoken or whiten account of connected events; a story

Question 13

Monologue

Answer 13

A long, usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the characters thoughts

Question 14

Ode:

Answer 14

Written in honour of something

Question 15

Quatrain:

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A poem consisting of 4 lines, or 4 lines of a poem that can be considered a unit

Question 16

Couplet:

Answer 16

Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry

Question 17

Sestet

Answer 17

Da stanza or a poem of six lines: Italian sonnet

Question 18

Stanza:

Answer 18

A group of lines in a poem

Question 19

Iambic

Answer 19

A poetic verse made up of metrical feet with two syllables

Question 20

Meter:

Answer 20

The arrangement of syllables into feet within a line

Question 21

Foot/feet

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A combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 22

Allegory:

Answer 22

A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. (Ex. Lord of the flies, Animal farm)