Poetry Quiz

In the English tradition, what is a ballad typically characterized by?

• A form of rhymed quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines

• A brief hymn or song of lamentation and grief

• A short poem intended for an inscription on a tombstone

• A fixed light-verse form of five anapestic lines

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Which type of poem is often composed to be performed at a funeral?

• Ballad

• Dirge

• Limerick

• Epigram

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What is a doggerel traditionally characterized by?

• Elegance and regular meter

• Clichés, clumsiness, and irregular meter

• Deep grief and lamentation

• Musical accompaniment

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What is an elegy typically about in traditional English poetry?

• A humorous story

• A lament for a subject's death ending in consolation

• A dedication to a particular person

• A witty poem

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What is the purpose of an envoi in French poetic forms?

• To express personal feelings

• To serve as a summation or dedication

• To provide musical accompaniment

• To rhyme in anapestic lines

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What is an epitaph intended for?

• A musical composition

• An inscription on a tombstone

• A humorous poem

• A narrative song

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What is a limerick characterized by?

• A form of rhymed quatrains

• A brief hymn of lamentation

• Five anapestic lines rhyming AABBA

• A pithy, witty poem

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What does a lyric poem typically express?

• A central dramatic event

• Personal feelings

• A humorous story

• A brief elegy

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What is an Ode?

• A formal lyric poem that celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.

• A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme.

• A complex French verse form with six stanzas.

• A French verse form with five three-line stanzas.

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Which poetic form is associated with idealized accounts of shepherds and rural life?

• Pastoral

• Sestina

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

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