5 Written Questions

1. the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words such as "rough and ready"
2. the pattern or repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
3. seven feet
4. four-line stanza
5. (closed couplet) consists of two successive rhyming lines that contain a complete thought

5 Matching Questions

1. monometer
2. tetrameter
3. sestet
4. spondaic
5. stanza

1. a a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains
2. b six-line stanza
3. c one foot
4. d four feet
5. e two stressed syllables (heartbreak)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. five feet
   1. heptameter
   2. pentameter
   3. hexameter
   4. tetrameter
2. denotes a form in poetry for which there are prescribed and established rules with regard to the number of lines, the meter, the line length, rhyme and more.
   1. free verse
   2. fixed form
   3. dimeter
   4. rhymed verse
3. a poem consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. There are two popular forms of the sonnet, the Italian (or Petrarchan) and the Shakespearean (or English).
   1. sonnet
   2. foot
   3. couplet
   4. sestet
4. an unrhymed form of poetry that normally consists of 10 in which every other syllable, beginning with the second is stressed
   1. verse
   2. free verse
   3. blank verse
   4. rhymed verse
5. a stressed followed an unstressed syllable (older)
   1. trochaic
   2. pyrrhic
   3. spondaic
   4. octave

5 True/False Questions

1. onomatopoeia → one foot

   True        False

2. paradox → a main division of a long poem

   True        False

3. triplet → two-line stanza

   True        False

4. dimeter → the pattern or repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

   True        False

5. ballad → a statement that at first strikes the reader as self-contradictory but on reflection makes sense

   True        False