
Various elements, techniques, and literary devices in specific forms of poetry
Quiz by AMIHAN GRANDE
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1) A literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas using distinctive style and rhythm.
2) The author of the poem or literary piece
3) The speaker or narrator of the poem.
4) The lesson about life or statement about human nature that the poem expresses.
5) The topic of the poem, or what the poem is about
6) The attitude expressed in a poem that a reader sees and feels
7) The appearance of the words on the page of the reference.
8) A group of words that form a single line of poetry.
9) A section of a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
10) A two line stanza
11) A three line stanza
12) A four line stanza – This is the usual kind of stanza
13) A five line stanza
14) A six line stanza
15) A seven line stanza
16) An eight line stanza
17) When there is no written or natural pause at the end of a poetic line, so that the word-flow carries over to the next line.
18) Poems with rhyme and with meter.
19) Does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Does NOT have rhyme.
20) Written in lines of iambic pentameter but does NOT use end rhyme. With METER without end RHYME
21) Example: “Whose woods these are, I think I know” is the first line from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost. Notice that the accented words (underlined) give the line a distinctive beat.
22) A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
23) A unit of meter which can have two or three syllables.
24) The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.
25) The repetition of vowel sounds within words in a line.
26) The repetition of consonant sounds within words in a line.
27) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
28) Sounds, words, or phrases that are repeated to add emphasis or create rhythm.
29) To play with the sounds and meanings of real or invented words.
30) The time and place where a story or poem takes place.
31) The problem or situation a character or characters face in a story or poem.
32) The series of events in a story or poem.
33) Created through the careful selection and organization of words and phrases from existing text.
34)A type of Filipino poem which consists of four lines with seven syllables each with the same rhyme at the end of each line. It has a 7-7-7-7 syllabic verse, with commonly an AABB rhyme scheme
35) An ancient form of poetry that is composed of 7 syllables for every verse/line, 3 verses/lines for every stanza, and has a single rhyme scheme.
36) A Japanese poem written in three lines followong the Five Syllables, Seven Syllables and Five Syllables.
37) A poem where the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase vertically that acts as the theme or message of the poem.
38) A poem where the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase vertically that acts as the theme or message of the poem.
39) A poem that has 14 lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme. It comes from the Italian word that means “little song.” There are various types of sonnets, and each one is formatted a little differently, following various rhyme
40) A poem that uses words to form the shape of the subject of the poem (also known as a “shape poem”).
41) A short poem that usually written in first person point of view and expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene
42) A five-line untitled poem, where the syllable pattern increases by two for each line, except for the last line, which ends in two syllables (2,4,6,8.2).
43) A form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse. Narrative poems do not need rhyme.
44) A form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.
45) The conversation between the characters in a story or poem.