Poetry and Literary Devices Quiz

Define free verse poem

• Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.

• Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.

• A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.

• a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.

• A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.

Define blank verse poem

• Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.

• Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.

• A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.

• a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.

• A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.

Define terza rima

• Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.

• Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.

• A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.

• a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.

• A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.

Define heroic couplets

• Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.

• Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.

• A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.

• a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.

• A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.

Define quatrains

• Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.

• Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.

• A poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme.

• a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.

• A poem made of stanzas of four lines, especially having alternate rhymes.

This is an example of

• free verse

• blank verse

• terza rima

• a heroic couplet

• a quatrain

This is an example of

• free verse

• blank verse

• terza rima

• heroic couplets

• a quatrain

This is an example of

• free verse

• blank verse

• terza rima

• a heroic couplet

• a quoatrain

This is an example of

• free verse

• blank verse

• terza rima

• a heroic couplet

• a quoatrain

Answer explanation

As seen in this excerpt from the General Prologue, each pair of successive lines is linked through end rhyme (man and bigan, chivalrie and curtesie):

excerpt from Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley .

This is an example of

• free verse

• blank verse

• terza rima

• a heroic couplet

• a quoatrain

Answer explanation

Here, the rhyme scheme is apparent through the use of “dead” in stanza one and “red” and “bed” in stanza two.