Vocab #6

Question 1

a poem narrating a story, traditionally set to music.

Answer 1

Ballad

Question 2

a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of persons.

Answer 2

Epic

Question 3

Tells a story. The poet combines elements of storytelling such as plot, setting, and characters with elements of poetry, such as meter, rhyme, and stanzas.

Answer 3

Narrative

Question 4

a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has a set rhyme scheme

Answer 4

Sonnet

Question 5

a poem or lines in drama written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 5

Blank Verse

Question 6

a lyric poem that addresses and praises a person, place, thing, idea, or other abstraction.

Answer 6

Ode

Question 7

poetry that does not have a set rhyme scheme or regular meter; poetry that does not rhyme

Answer 7

Free Verse

Question 8

a poem expressing sorrow for one who has died.

Answer 8

Elegy

Question 9

a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. Has a “da-dum” rhythm.

Answer 9

Iambic Pentameter

Question 10

a poem set in the natural world, discussing nature, pastures, shepards, landscapes, etc.

Answer 10

Pastoral