Vacab

Question 1

Stanza

Answer 1

Lines of poetry

Question 2

Couplet

Answer 2

Stanza of two lines

Question 3

Tercet

Answer 3

Three line stanzas

Question 4

Quatrain

Answer 4

Four lines of poetry

Question 5

Sestina

Answer 5

Six lines of poetry

Question 6

Octave

Answer 6

Eight lines of poetry

Question 7

Ode

Answer 7

Poem meant to be song, telling a story

Question 8

Elegy

Answer 8

A poem of serious reflection, often around death

Question 9

Metaphorical

Answer 9

A poem about deep thought, thinking about thinking

Question 10

Lyric

Answer 10

Expressing the writers emotion

Question 11

Narrative

Answer 11

Tells a story

Question 12

Shakespearean/Elizabethan

Answer 12

A 14 line poem, 12 lines are divided into three quatrains with a couplet at the end

Question 13

Italian/Petrarchan

Answer 13

And octave and a sestet

Question 14

Aillusion

Answer 14

Refers to something without naming it

Question 15

Apostrophe

Answer 15

Directly addressing someone or something that is not in the poem

Question 16

Diction

Answer 16

Word choice

Question 17

Hyperbole

Answer 17

Exaggeration

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

Repetition between sentences and consistent form

Question 19

Rhythm

Answer 19

Repeated rhyme

Question 20

Rhyme

Answer 20

Similar sounding words

Question 21

Understatement

Answer 21

Something mentioned as less than an actuality