Poetry Terms

Question 1

Elegy

Answer 1

A poem mourning the death or passing of something highly valued

Question 2

Epigram

Answer 2

Short, pointed poem

Question 3

Epitaph

Answer 3

An inscription on a grave stone

Question 4

Epithalamion

Answer 4

A poem celebrating a wedding

Question 5

Valediction

Answer 5

A goodbye

Question 6

Apostrophe

Answer 6

A direct second person address to another

Question 7

Invocation

Answer 7

Asking a deity to be present among humans

Question 8

Types of line widths (-meter)

Answer 8

Mono (1) Di (2) Tri (3) Tetra (4) Penta (5) Hexa (6) (mono and di are rare)

Question 9

Iambic

Answer 9

Unstressed, stressed

Question 10

Anapestic

Answer 10

2 unstressed, stressed

Question 11

Trochaic

Answer 11

Stressed, unstressed

Question 12

Dactylic

Answer 12

Stressed, 2 unstressed

Question 13

Spondaic

Answer 13

Stressed, stressed (heavy foot)

Question 14

Pyrrhic

Answer 14

Both unstressed (light foot)

Question 15

Couplet

Answer 15

Pair of rhyming lines

Question 16

Heroic couplet

Answer 16

Iambic pentameter couplet that is end-stopped, and frequently pointed and witty

Question 17

Tercet

Answer 17

Three line stanza

Question 18

Terza rima

Answer 18

Pentameter tercel with interlinked rhymes

Question 19

Quatrain

Answer 19

4 line stanza

Question 20

Sixain or sestet

Answer 20

6 line stanza

Question 21

Rime Royal

Answer 21

Seven line stanza in iambic pentameter

Question 22

Ottava Rima

Answer 22

8 line stanza in iambic pentameter

Question 23

Spenserian stanza

Answer 23

9 line stanza in iambic pentameter

Question 24

Sonnet

Answer 24

14 line poem
Italian/Petrarchian= octave and sestet
English

Question 25

Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 25

Three quatrains and a couplet | Ababcdcdefefgg

Question 26

Spenserian sonnet

Answer 26

Same form as Shakespearean but interlocking rhyme scheme | Ababbcbccdcdee

Question 27

Enjambment

Answer 27

Sticking an out of place idea in

Question 28

Hyperbole

Answer 28

Exaggeration for emphasis and humor

Question 29

Apostrophe

Answer 29

Speaker of poem talks to someone not there

Question 30

Metonymy

Answer 30

Substitution of name of attribute/adjunct for that of the thing meant (crown=King)

Question 31

Synecdoche

Answer 31

Part is made to represent whole or vice verse

Question 32

Allegory

Answer 32

Can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one

Question 33

Aubade

Answer 33

A dawn poem in which one of the lovers, usually, is waked by the sun and speaks