Poetic Devices

How comfortable are you with poetic terms?

• Very comfortable

• Mostly comfortable

• Somewhat comfortable

• Not comfortable at all

Paragraph is to prose as ____ is to poetry

• Verse

• Line

• Stanza

• Sentence

A sonnet has ____ lines.

• 14

• 16

• 18

• 20

A narrative poem is...

•  a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations upon death or another solemn theme.

• any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings.

• a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short.

• normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.

_____ is a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson.

• didactic poem

• dramatic poem

• lyric poem

• elegy

____ is unrhymed iambic pentameter.

• couplet

• blank verse

• ballad meter

• enjambment

Free verse is...

• two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit.

• the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.

• the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.

•  poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.

Each unit of meter is known as a/n...

• ear

• arm

• toe

• foot

Poetic foot is a group of ____ in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it.

• Syllables

• Lines

• Rhymes

• Words

A quatrain has ____ lines.

• 2

• 4

• 6

• 8