Unit 8-Poems With A Pattern:Fixed, Continuous, & Free Forms Flashcards
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”?
Continuos firm
What s the form that is written in stanzas?
Stanzaic form
What are groups of lines having the same metrical pattern repeated throughout?
Stanzas
What is a phrase or sentence which is repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza?
Refrain
What is a fourteen-line poem (usually written in iambic pentameter) with a definite pattern of two basic varieties, Italian or English?
Sonnet
What form is a traditional pattern which applies to the whole poem such as the sonnet and limerick?
Fixed form
What has two parts, an octave and a sestet, which represent a division in thought?
Italian or Petrarchan sonnet
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?
English or Shakespearean sonnet
What has a rhyme scheme of abba abba and raises a question or presents a situation or idea?
Octave
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?
Sestet
Who wrote the poem “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”?
John Keats
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?
John Keats
Who wrote “Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year”?
William Shakespeare
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?
William Shakespeare
What us a fixed form of five lines with an anapestic rhythm and a rhyme scheme of aabba?
Limerick
What is a Japanese form of poetry, usually unrhymed, and consists of three lines with five, seven, and five syllables respectively?
Haiku
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?
Matsuo Bashō
What is a five-line poem of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables?
Cinquain
What is also known as shaped verse, and is constructed in such a way that the printed shape suggests the topic of the poem?
Figure poem
Who wrote the poems “The Altar” and “Easter Wings”?
George Herbert
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?
Free verse
Who wrote “takes talent”?
Don Marquis
Who is the author who is remembered for his creation of the characters Archy and Mehitabel a cockroach and a cat?
Don Marquis
Who wrote “I thank You God for most amazing things”?
E. E. Cummings
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?
E. E. Cummings
