Introduction to Poetry

What is the purpose of annotations according to the document?

• To write poetry

• To ask questions and to help broaden your understanding by using notetaking skills.

• To avoid prose

• To create condensed language

What is poetry?

• A type of dance

• A form of literature

• A musical instrument

• A painting style

What type of poem expresses the thoughts and feelings of the speaker?

• Narrative poem

• Ballad

• Lyric poem

• Epic

What is a ballad typically intended to be?

• Read silently

• Sung

• Recited

• Written

Where did the limerick originate?

• England

• Scotland

• Ireland

• Wales

What is the usual subject of a sonnet?

• Nature

• War

• Love

• Adventure

Which rhyme scheme is associated with the Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet?

• abab, cdcd, efef, gg

• abba, abba, cde, cde

• aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg

• abcd, efgh, ijkl, mn

Which rhyme scheme is associated with the English, or Shakespearian, sonnet?

• abba, abba, cde, cde

• aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg

• abab, cdcd, efef, gg

• abcd, efgh, ijkl, mn

literature that is not poetry; ex: most essays, short stories, novels, and plays 

• prose
• poetry
• limericks
• elegy

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is prose?

• poetry
• anything that isn't poetry
• I don't know

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A