Poetry Quiz

Question 1

End rhyme

Answer 1

When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.

Question 2

Internal Rhyme

Answer 2

a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

Question 3

Masculine Rhyme

Answer 3

A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved.

Question 4

Feminine Rhyme

Answer 4

A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved.

Question 5

Enjambment

Answer 5

(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Question 6

End-stopped line

Answer 6

a line that ends with a natural speech pause (usually marked with punctuation)

Question 7

caesura

Answer 7

pauses that occur within the lines (grammatical - punctuation, rhetorical - phrasing and syntax)

Question 8

free verse

Answer 8

except for line arrangement, no necessary differences between the rhythms of free verse and the rhythms of prose.

Question 9

Prose Poetry

Answer 9

appears as prose, but read like poetry. The form lacks line breaks associated with poetry, but maintains a poetic quality.

Question 10

prosidy

Answer 10

the study of poetic meters

Question 11

rhythm

Answer 11

refers to the flow of actual, pronounced sound

Question 12

meter

Answer 12

refers to pattern that the sounds follow when a poet has arranged them in metrical verse

Question 13

foot

Answer 13

basic unit of meter, consists typically of one accented and one or two unaccented syllables

Question 14

iambic

Answer 14

unstressed stressed

Question 15

trochaic

Answer 15

stressed unstressed

Question 16

anapest

Answer 16

unstressed unstressed stressed

Question 17

dactyl

Answer 17

stressed unstressed unstressed

Question 18

spondee

Answer 18

stressed stressed

Question 19

duple meters

Answer 19

iambic and trochaic

Question 20

triple meters

Answer 20

anapest and dactyl

Question 21

one foot

Answer 21

monometer

Question 22

two feet

Answer 22

dimeter

Question 23

three feet

Answer 23

trimeter

Question 24

four feet

Answer 24

tetrameter

Question 25

five feet

Answer 25

pentameter

Question 26

six feet

Answer 26

hexameter

Question 27

metrical variation:

substitutions

Answer 27

replacing regular foot with another food

Question 28

metrical variation:

extrametrical syllables

Answer 28

syllables added to the beginning or ending of a line

Question 29

metrical variation:

truncation

Answer 29

the omissions of a syllable (unaccented) at the beginning or ending of a line

Question 30

metrical variation:

scansion

Answer 30

process of the defining the metrical form of a poem

Question 31

Blank verse

Answer 31

Un-rhymed iambic pentameter

Shakespeare (“blank” indicates lack of rhyme)

Question 32

Petrarchan Sonnet

Answer 32

octave that includes rhyme scheme of (abba abba) and a seset (6 line stanza) that includes one of several rhyme schemes.

Question 33

epic poem

Answer 33

long, often book-length narrative in verse forms that retells a heroic journey of single/group persons.

Question 34

ballad

Answer 34

centuries old, European folk tradition of oral storytelling, and was often accompanied by musical instruments. Traditionally plot driven.

Question 35

Couplet

Answer 35

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

Question 36

quatrain

Answer 36

a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.

Question 37

tercet

Answer 37

a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.

Question 38

fixed form

Answer 38

a form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition, such as sonnet, limerick, villanelle, haiku, etc.

Question 39

villanelle

Answer 39

A villanelle is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.

Question 40

tezra rima

Answer 40

an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba, bcb, cdc etc.

Question 41

verse

Answer 41

metrical language (opposite of prose)

Question 42

refrain

Answer 42

a repeated line, phrase, word, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form.

Question 43

prose

Answer 43

non-metrical language

the opposite of verse

Question 44

shakespearean sonnet

Answer 44

Shakespeare’s sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The variation of the sonnet form that Shakespeare used—comprised of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg—is called the English or Shakespearean sonnet form, although others had used it before him.