Fixed forms Patterns Keep listening Organization What's left?
100
What is a fixed form?
A poem that has a set rhyme scheme, meter, or pattern
100
What is a ballad?
A fixed form that typically rhymes abab and tells a story
100
What is off rhyme or slant rhyme?
An inexact rhyme
100
What is a stanza?
A grouping of lines
100
What is end-stopped?
Lines of poetry that end with a definite mark of punctuation
200
What is another name for fixed form?
Closed form
200
What is blank verse?
unrhymed iambic pentameter
200
What is an eye rhyme?
Example: cough/bough
200
What is a couplet?
A group of two lines, often rhymed
200
What is free verse?
Not fixed-form. Also called open form.
300
What is an English or Shakespearean sonnet?
A poem that rhymes abab cdcd efef gg, is 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter
300
What is a villanelle?
A type of fixed form of nineteen lines where entire lines are repeated.
300
What is internal rhyme?
A rhyme within a line
300
What is a quatrain?
A group of 4 lines
300
What is parody?
A humorous imitation of another serious work
400
What is an Italian of Petrarchan sonnet?
A poem that typically rhymes abba abba, cdc, cdc, is divided in an octet, and sestet, is 14 lines, and is in iambic pentameter
400
What is a sestina?
A type of fixed form of 36 lines where 6 words are repeated in a specific sequence
400
What is euphony?
pleasant sounding
400
What is a tercet?
A group of 3 lines
400
What is enjambment?
When a line ends without a pause and continues on to the next line of poetry
500
What is a problem is posed or a question asked in the octet and the problem solved and the question answered in the sestet?
What typically happens in the octet and in the sestet of a Petrarchan sonnet?
500
What is a rhyme ending on a stressed syllable and a rhyme ending on an unstressed syllable?
Masculine line and feminine rhyme
500
What is a caesura?
A definite pause in the middle of a line as in the last line of "God's Grandeur"?
500
What is an octet and a sestet?
The divisions of an Italian sonnet
500
What is a type of poetry that emphasizes that time is short, so we should "seize the day"?
carpe diem poetry






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