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5 Written Questions

1. the process of measuring verse, of marking accented and unaccented syllables
2. a six line stanza. the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model
3. a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants
4. a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rime scheme conforming to or approximation one of two main types, Italian or English
5. a figure of speech in which something means more than what it is

5 Matching Questions

1. stanza
2. trochee
3. satire
4. simile
5. theme

1. a a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike
2. b the central idea of a literary work
3. c a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem
4. d a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable
5. e a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. metrical language; the opposite of prose
   1. tone
   2. sestet
   3. theme
   4. verse
2. the total experience communicated by a poem
   1. tetrameter
   2. triple meter
   3. triple rime
   4. total meaning
3. a metrical line containing four feet
   1. tetrameter
   2. trochee
   3. triple meter
   4. trimeter
4. a meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables; anapestic and dactylic meter
   1. trochee
   2. tetrameter
   3. trimeter
   4. triple meter
5. poetry aimed primarily at stimulating the emotions rather than at communication experience honestly and freshly
   1. trimeter
   2. simile
   3. tetrameter
   4. sentimental poetry

5 True/False Question

1. synecdoche → the internal organization of a poem's content
   

   True        False

2. triple rime → a metrical line containing three feet
   

   True        False

3. structure → the internal organization of a poem's content
   

   True        False

4. trochaic meter → a metrical line containing three feet
   

   True        False

5. triple meter → a rime in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the third last syllable of the words involved
   

   True        False