5 Written Questions

1. a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rime scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types-the Italian or the English
2. poetry using artificially eloquent language, being language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience
3. poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach
4. the internal organization of a poem's content
5. A type of fixed form poetry consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into six stanzas: five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The first and third lines of the initial tercet rhyme; these rhymes are repeated in each subsequent tercet (aba) and in the final two lines of the quatrain (abaa)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the external pattern or shape of a poem, describable without reference to its content
   1. euphony
   2. form
   3. fixed form
   4. sonnet
2. extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
   1. sonnet
   2. structure
   3. limerick
   4. sentimentality
3. a fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, the first two trimeter, the next two dimeter, the last line trimeter, riming aabba; used exclusively for humorous or nonsense verse
   1. sonnet
   2. limerick
   3. fixed form
   4. form
4. any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition, such as sonnet, limerick, villanelle, haiku, and so on
   1. euphony
   2. stanzaic form
   3. form
   4. fixed form
5. a sonnet consisting of an octave riming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rimes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde
   1. Italian (Petrachan) sonnet
   2. rhetorical poetry
   3. English (Shakespearean) sonnet
   4. sonnet

5 True/False Questions

1. stanzaic form → the form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning

   True        False

2. euphony → a smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

   True        False

3. cacophony → a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

   True        False

4. English (Shakespearean) sonnet → a sonnet consisting of an octave riming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rimes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde

   True        False

5. continuous form → the form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning

   True        False