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What is poetry?

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a ballad

a)

A sad song

b)

A poem that pokes fun at something

c)

an Italian lyric

d)

A narrative poem that often has a refrain

2.

What is blank verse?

a)

a poem with no fixed metrical pattern

b)

a poem that is rhymed or unrhymed

c)

a poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

d)

a brief line in a verse

3.

What is an idyll?

a)

A dystopia

b)

A repetitive place

c)

A pastoral poem, depicting a perfect country life

d)

Asonnet depicting an ode of a lyric

4.

What is an epigram?

a)

A brief poem in memory of someone

b)

A short witty poem, sometimes satiric

c)

A message on a headstone

d)

A thing that replaced a telegram

5.

What is a Petrarchan sonnet?

a)

A 14 line poem with an octave, a quatrain and a couplet

b)

A 14 line poem with the volta in the final rhyming couplet

c)

A sonnet with an abbabba octave introducing the theme and then a sestet

d)

a sonnet written by Petrarch

6.

What is a sestina?

a)

A poem with 16 lines

b)

A poem where the words at the start are repeated

c)

A poem with a fixed form of 6-line stanzas and a 3-line closing stanza

d)

A poem with a fixed form of 3-line stanzas and a 6 line closing stanza

7.

So, a villanelle, what's that all about?

a)

A 19 line poem with 5 tercets and a quatrain

b)

A 5 line poem with a tercet and a rhyming couplet

c)

A poem with a villain as the speaker

d)

A poem that is too daft to be credible

8.

What's a free verse poem?

a)

A poem notes for its unconformity to poetic structures

b)

An unstructured poem of iambic pentameter

c)

A poem that uses imagery and contains blank verse

d)

A three line, one stanza poem of varying syllable counts

9.

What's an ode?

a)

A lengthy lyric with a silly subject

b)

A lengthy lyric with a serious subject

c)

A poem with an elevated style to mock something

d)

A word that rhymes with toad and that's the only relevant thing

10.

What's a dramatic monologue?

a)

A poem in which a speaker addresses the audience

b)

A poem in which the speaker addresses a friend

c)

A poem in which the speaker addresses a silent listener

d)

A poem that is highly dramatic and monotonous

11.

What's the purpose of an elegy?

a)

To poke fun at a serious literary work

b)

To tell the story of a heroic deed

c)

To write about nature

d)

To lament someone who died