WorksheetsPoetry Vocabulary
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 37mins
This type of poetic verse emphasizes nonlinguistic elements in its meaning, such as a typeface that creates a visual image of the topic.
(a)
A group of progressive poets who, in the 1940s and 1950s, were associated with the experimental college in North Carolina.
Beat Poets
Harlem Poets
Liberty Poets
Black Mountain Poets
The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetic verse.
(a)
A short poem intended for (or imagined as) an inscription on a tombstone and often serving as a brief elegy.
elegy
epitaph
grave marker
epic
A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme originating in Italy and brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard in the 16th century. This word literally means “little song.” It traditionally reflects upon a single emotion (or sentiment) with a clarification or “turn” of thought in its concluding lines. There are many different types of this poem.
sonic
pun
sonnet
ode
A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. Its stanza forms vary.
(a)
According to Virgil, the Greek god Apollo decreed that poets should receive laurels as a prize. The British crown created this position of honor in 1688 and awarded it to poets for life. In the United States, the Library of Congress appoints the position, with the official title of _____ ________, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Recipients of the honor usually serve for one year and promote poetry to the public through readings, lectures, or educational projects.
(a)
An extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning. Often, the meaning is religious, moral, or historical in nature.
acrostic
extended metaphor
allegory
simple symbol
A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence.” For example, when a person says "same difference," or "awfully good."
(a)
A 12-syllable iambic line adapted from French heroic verse.
Alexandrine
Hepameter
Pentameter
12 Font Iamb
An area in Westminster Abbey in London that holds both monuments and graves of famous poets, playwrights, and writers.
Cemetery of Poets
Poet's Condo
Trancept
Poet's Corner
Which one of the following IS NOT buried in Poet's Corner.
Rudyard Kipling
John Dryden
Thomas Hardy
William Shakespear
A broad designation for poetry intended for performance. Though sometimes it is also written on paper, the genre has its roots in oral traditions and performance. Spoken word can encompass or contain elements of rap, hip-hop, storytelling, theater, and jazz, rock, blues, and folk music.
Pop Star Poetry
Spoken Word
Unspoken Word
Stanza Word
A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lines form the final couplet in the quatrain. This is called a (a) .
Which poem is an example of a villanelle?
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
"The Fog"
"By The Sea"
"Fame is a fickle food"
In traditional English poetry, it is often a melancholy poem that laments its subject’s death but ends in consolation.
Ode
Dirge
Epitaph
Elegy
A brief hymn or song of lamentation and grief; it was typically composed to be performed at a funeral. In lyric poetry, a dirge tends to be shorter and less meditative than an elegy.
elegy
dirge
ode
epitaph
I think poetry could be interesting and fun, if we were able to discuss it as a class.
Yes!
No!
I am not sure yet.
Our class cannot handle discussions because people get loud, interrupt, and talk about things that are off topic.
I like the new classroom rule of absolutely no talking and staying on focus.
Yes
No
Tone is...
The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. Rhymed words conventionally share all sounds following the word’s last stressed syllable. Thus “tenacity” and “mendacity” rhyme, but not “jaundice” and “John does,” or “tomboy” and “calm bay.”
The poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader. Often described as a “mood” that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem’s vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme.
A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme.
The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line.
A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically.
assonance
consonance
acrostic
bombast
A national group of poets who emerged from San Francisco’s literary counterculture in the 1950s.
Harlem Poets
Six Mile Poets
Beat Poets
Black Mountain Poets
This type of poetry is largely free verse, often surrealistic, and influenced by the cadences of jazz, as well by Zen and Native American spirituality.
Harlem Renaissance
Pickens Paradox Poetry
Beat Poetry
Parody Poetry
A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. The words “unite” and “provide” are both iambic. It is the most common metrical foot in English poetry (including all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare, as it is closest to the rhythms of English speech.
pentameter
trimeter
iamb
Lamb
What is Dada?
A group of progressive poets who, in the 1940s and 1950s, were associated with the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
A period of musical, literary, and cultural proliferation that began in New York’s African-American community during the 1920s and early 1930s. The movement was key to developing a new sense of Black identity and aesthetics as writers, visual artists, and musicians articulated new modes of African-American experience and experimented with artistic forms, modernist techniques, and folk culture.
A movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire. The founders of this movement struck upon this essentially nonsense word to embody a simultaneously playful and nihilistic spirit alive among European visual artists and writers during and immediately after World War I.
From the Latin term for “concept,” a poetic (a) is an often unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more intellectual than sensual.
A conceit is a kind of complex metaphor.
True
False
The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation is called __________.
end-stopped
enjambment
ghazel
mimesos
The opposite of enjambment is...
end-stopped
ghazel
mimesis
canzone
A canto is found within an....
song
epic
meter
conceit
What is a canto?
A nursery rhyme.
An essay that is at least 20 paragraphs long.
A short, song-like enchantment.
A long subsection of an epic or long narrative poem.
Any poem expressing deep grief, usually at the death of a loved one or some other loss. Related to but not the same as the elegy and the dirge.
epistle
lament
dirge
ode
What is the difference between a lament and a dirge?
A dirge is very long and a lament is usually short.
A dirge is happy and a lament is sad.
A dirge is played on horns and a lament is spoken.
A dirge is a brief hymn or song of lamentation and a lament is a poem expressing grief.
Do you think writing poetry, or reading poetry written by others, would be a good way to help yourself to understand your own emotions such as grief, love, sadness, joy, loneliness, happiness, or anger?
Yes
No
This word literally means “song” in Italian. It is a lyric poem originating in medieval Italy and France and usually consisting of hendecasyllabic lines with end-rhymes.
canzone
calzone
stromboli
crustini
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What does hendecasyllabic mean?
consisting of 11 syllables
a kind of paper
a long rhyme scheme
consisting of 7 chapters
A line made up of five feet. It is the most common metrical line in English.
trimeter
quadrameter
pentameter
refrainameter
What is Poetic License?
A special authority given by Poetry School that allows a person to say their poems out loud in places like Congress or church.
A poet’s departure from the rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme; can also mean the manipulation of facts to suit the needs of a poem.
Being able to drive to poetry school.
The authority to grade poems and essays for a university.
A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. A haiku often features an image, or a pair of images, meant to depict the essence of a specific moment in time.
trimeter
limeric
lament
hokku
The assignment of human feelings to inanimate objects, as coined by the Victorian literary critic John Ruskin. For him, a poet’s tendency to project his or her emotions outward onto the workings of the natural world was a kind of false vision. Today the term is used more neutrally, and the phenomenon is usually accepted as an integral part of the poet’s craft.
personification
pathetic fallacy
poetic fallacy
poetic license
