Unit 8-Poems With A Pattern:Fixed, Continuous, & Free Forms

Question 1

What form is written line upon line with no grouping of lines or breaks as in Herrick’s “Upon His Departure Hence,” and Victor Hugo’s “After the Battle”?

Answer 1

Continuos firm

Question 2

What s the form that is written in stanzas?

Answer 2

Stanzaic form

Question 3

What are groups of lines having the same metrical pattern repeated throughout?

Answer 3

Stanzas

Question 4

What is a phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza?

Answer 4

Refrain

Question 5

What is a fourteen-line poem (usually written in iambic pentameter) with a definite pattern of two basic varieties, Italian or English?

Answer 5

Sonnet

Question 6

What form is a traditional pattern which applies to the whole poem such as the sonnet and limerick?

Answer 6

Fixed form

Question 7

What has two parts, an octave and a sestet, which represent a division in thought?

Answer 7

Italian or Petrarchan sonnet

Question 8

What contains three quatrains and a couplet and has a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg, and often presents three examples or ideas, and the couplet presents a conclusion?

Answer 8

English or Shakespearean sonnet

Question 9

What has a rhyme scheme of abba abba and raises a question or presents a situation or idea?

Answer 9

Octave

Question 10

What may have one of several rhyme schemes (such as cdcdcd, cdecde, or ccddee) and responds to the octave by making a comment, giving an example, or answering a question?

Answer 10

Sestet

Question 11

Who wrote the poem “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”?

Answer 11

John Keats

Question 12

Who was one of the most promising English poets of the Romantic period, carried a certificate to practice medicine but decided to write instead, and suffered from tuberculosis and died at an early age?

Answer 12

John Keats

Question 13

Who wrote “Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year”?

Answer 13

William Shakespeare

Question 14

Who is most often remembered for his dozens of plays which are written entirely or partly in verse, some of his best known were Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, and Henry VIII, and many have considered him the greatest writer of all time?

Answer 14

William Shakespeare

Question 15

What us a fixed form of five lines with an anapestic rhythm and a rhyme scheme of aabba?

Answer 15

Limerick

Question 16

What is a Japanese form of poetry, usually unrhymed, and consists of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively?

Answer 16

Haiku

Question 17

What Japanese poet is considered to be the greatest master of haiku, and had been a samurai but eventually decided to abandon warfare and write poetry?

Answer 17

Matsuo Bashō

Question 18

What is a five-line poem of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables?

Answer 18

Cinquain

Question 19

What is also known as shaped verse, and is constructed in such a way that the printed shape suggests the topic of the poem?

Answer 19

Figure poem

Question 20

Who wrote the poems “The Altar” and “Easter Wings”?

Answer 20

George Herbert

Question 21

What usually has no rhyme or meter and tends to follow the normal rhythms and cadences of speech and is used by many modern poets?

Answer 21

Free verse

Question 22

Who wrote “takes talent”?

Answer 22

Don Marquis

Question 23

Who is the author who is remembered for his creation of the characters Archy and Mehitabel a cockroach and a cat?

Answer 23

Don Marquis

Question 24

Who wrote “I thank You God for most amazing things”?

Answer 24

E. E. Cummings

Question 25

Who was the poet who abandoned the rules of grammar and punctuation in an attempt to write a new kind of poetry, and believed strongly in individualism and hated anything standardized?

Answer 25

E. E. Cummings