Poetry Forms Quiz

1. A poem with fourteen lines that follows a regular rhyme pattern and is usually written in iambic pentameter

• sonnet
• ballad
• couplet
• villanelle

2. Unrhymed lines without regular rhythm.

• free verse
• blank verse
• long verse
• English verse

3. A three line stanza of poetry

• trio

• tercet

• quatrain

• couplet

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

4. An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.

• ballad
• elegy
• allusion
• meter

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

5. Poetry not written in traditional meter but still rhythmical

• heroic couplet
• blank verse
• free verse
• sonnet

6. A short poem with a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings in an emotional, song-like manner

• lyric
• narrative
• drama
• free verse

7. 7. An eight line stanza

• tercet
• septet
• sestet
• octave

8. A poem narrating a story in short stanzas, typically an unknown author, passed on orally through generations as part of folk culture

• ballad
• lyric
• elegy
• sonnet

9. A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable ( / U )

• anapest
• dactyle
• iamb
• trochee

10. A Petrarchan sonnet has...

• one cinquain, one x-line stanza
• one octave, one sestet
• three quatrains, one couplet
• two septets

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10