Poetry

What is a stanza?

• lines grouped together, using a space to divide

• two lines that rhyme

• a regular pattern of rhyming

• rhythm or beat of the poem

What is a couplet?

• lines grouped together, using a space to divide

• two lines that rhyme

• a regular pattern of rhyming

• rhythm or beat of the poem

What is a rhyme scheme?

• lines grouped together, using a space to divide

• two lines that rhyme

• a regular pattern of rhyming

• rhythm or beat of the poem

What is meter?

• lines grouped together, using a space to divide

• two lines that rhyme

• a regular pattern of rhyming

• rhythm or beat of the poem

What is iambic meter?

• unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

• no regular meter or rhyming scheme

• five metrical beats

• rhythm or beat of the poem

What is free verse?

• unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

• no regular meter or rhyming scheme

• five metrical beats

• rhythm or beat of the poem

What is pentameter?

• unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

• no regular meter or rhyming scheme

• five metrical beats

• rhythm or beat of the poem

Who wrote "A Psalm of Life"

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• A E Housman

• William Shakespeare

• Lord Byron

Who wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young"

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• A E Housman

• William Shakespeare

• Lord Byron

Who wrote "All the World's a Stage"

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• A E Housman

• William Shakespeare

• Lord Byron