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WorksheetsWhat is poetry?
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is a ballad
A sad song
A poem that pokes fun at something
an Italian lyric
A narrative poem that often has a refrain
What is blank verse?
a poem with no fixed metrical pattern
a poem that is rhymed or unrhymed
a poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
a brief line in a verse
What is an idyll?
A dystopia
A repetitive place
A pastoral poem, depicting a perfect country life
Asonnet depicting an ode of a lyric
What is an epigram?
A brief poem in memory of someone
A short witty poem, sometimes satiric
A message on a headstone
A thing that replaced a telegram
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
A 14 line poem with an octave, a quatrain and a couplet
A 14 line poem with the volta in the final rhyming couplet
A sonnet with an abbabba octave introducing the theme and then a sestet
a sonnet written by Petrarch
What is a sestina?
A poem with 16 lines
A poem where the words at the start are repeated
A poem with a fixed form of 6-line stanzas and a 3-line closing stanza
A poem with a fixed form of 3-line stanzas and a 6 line closing stanza
So, a villanelle, what's that all about?
A 19 line poem with 5 tercets and a quatrain
A 5 line poem with a tercet and a rhyming couplet
A poem with a villain as the speaker
A poem that is too daft to be credible
What's a free verse poem?
A poem notes for its unconformity to poetic structures
An unstructured poem of iambic pentameter
A poem that uses imagery and contains blank verse
A three line, one stanza poem of varying syllable counts
What's an ode?
A lengthy lyric with a silly subject
A lengthy lyric with a serious subject
A poem with an elevated style to mock something
A word that rhymes with toad and that's the only relevant thing
What's a dramatic monologue?
A poem in which a speaker addresses the audience
A poem in which the speaker addresses a friend
A poem in which the speaker addresses a silent listener
A poem that is highly dramatic and monotonous
What's the purpose of an elegy?
To poke fun at a serious literary work
To tell the story of a heroic deed
To write about nature
To lament someone who died
