Ballads, Sonnets, and Villanelles

Which poetry type has 19 lines and 6 stanzas (5 tercets and 1 quatrain)?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which poetry type has exactly 14 lines?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

Which poetry type can be English/Shakespearean or Italian/Petrarchan?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

Which poetry type introduces characters, setting, and possible conflict (usually in the first stanza)?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which poetry type has a refrain (A1 and A2)?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

Which poetry type is usually written in quatrains (with a rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABCB) or sestets (with a rhyme scheme of ABCBDB)?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which poetry type has two parts where the 1st introduces a problem/question and the 2nd expresses a solution/answer?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which 2 poetry types are written in iambic pentameter?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

Which type of poetry is usually written in common meter (alternating lines of tetrameter [8 syllables per line] and trimeter [6 syllables per line]?

• ballad

• sonnet

• villanelle

What is iambic meter?

• a “foot” with an unstressed and stressed syllable (u /)

• a “foot” with a stressed and unstressed syllable (/ u)

• a line with 10 syllables

• a line with a varied meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4