Poetry Booklet

Question 1

What is a foot?

Answer 1

The basic building block of all poetry. The foot creates the meter of the poem.

Question 2

What is the poetic line measured by?

Answer 2

The number of feet it contains

Question 3

What do lines form?

Answer 3

Stanzas

Question 4

What are the 5 foots and their syllables?

Answer 4

Iamb- unstressed, stressed;
Trochee- stressed, unstressed;
Anapaest- unstressed, unstressed, stressed;
Dactyl- stressed, unstressed, unstressed;
Sponde- stressed, stressed;

Question 5

What are the lines?
1 foot
2 feet
...
9 feet?

Answer 5

1 foot- monometer;
2 feet- dimeter;
3 feet- trimeter;
4 feet- tetrameter;
5 feet- pentameter;
6 feet- hexameter;
7 feet- heptameter;
8 feet- octameter;
9 feet- nonometer;

Question 6

What are the stanzas? 1 line, 2 lines…8 lines?

Answer 6

1 line- a line;
2 lines- couplet;
3 lines- tercet;
4 lines- quatrain;
5 lines- cinquain;
6 lines- sestet;
7 lines- septet;
8 lines- octave;

Question 7

What is the ballad?

Answer 7

One of the earliest poetic forms; it was originally spoken or sung; simple. Dialogue, repetition, minor characterization

Question 8

What is a ballad written in (stanzas)?

Answer 8

Quatrain

Question 9

What is the basic ballad rhyme scheme?

Answer 9

Abcb

Question 10

What adds to the ballad song like quality?

Answer 10

Refrain

Question 11

What is a ballad composed of line wise and meter wise?

Answer 11

Composed of two lines or iambic tetrameter alternating with two lines of iambic trimeter

Question 12

What are the three point listed about the meter?

Answer 12

Personal; subjective and melodious; reflective in tone

Question 13

What is the ode?

Answer 13

Formal lyric poem that addresses subjects of elevated stature

Question 14

What is the elegy?

Answer 14

Formal lyric poem written in honour of someone who has die.

Question 15

What is the dramatic monologue?

Answer 15

Relates an episode in a speaker’s life through conversational format that reveals the character of the speaker.