Vocab 5 (Poetry & Poetics)

Question 1

from the Italian word sonnetto (meaning, little song); a fourteen line poem

Answer 1

sonnet

Question 2

otherwise known as an Italian sonnet; this type of sonnet is a fourteen line poem that is divided by an octave and a sestet

Answer 2

Petrarchan sonnet

Question 3

otherwise known as an English Sonnet; this type of sonnet is a fourteen line poem that is divided into three quatrains and a heroic couplet

Answer 3

Shakespearean sonnet

Question 4

poetry that is written without a rhyme scheme

Answer 4

free verse

Question 5

rhyme that occurs when the last word or words of one line of poetry rhyme with the last word or words of another

Answer 5

End rhyme

Question 6

when rhyme occurs within a line of poetry, as opposed to the end of the line

Answer 6

Internal rhyme

Question 7

when an author uses poetic license to rhyme words that do not quite sound the same

Answer 7

Near rhyme

Question 8

the first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet. Typically introduces a problem or question that is not answered or resolved

Answer 8

Octave

Question 9

the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet. Typically responds to the problem or question that has been posed in an octave and attempts to answer or resolve it

Answer 9

Sestet

Question 10

a four line stanza

Answer 10

Quatrain

Question 11

two rhyming lines of poetry that share the same meter

Answer 11

Couplet

Question 12

the moment, word or line in a sonnet in which a shift has been made between conflict and resolution

Answer 12

Turn

Question 13

the measured pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables within a sing line of poetry

Answer 13

Meter

Question 14

a five-foot line made up of unaccented followed by an accented syllable

Answer 14

Iambic Pentameter

Question 15

a pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated, sometimes not

Answer 15

Caesura