Test: Poetry Vocabulary part 2 - 20 Questions

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5 Matching Questions

  1. stanza
  2. trochaic
  3. ode
  4. octameter
  5. foot
  1. a characterized by a serious topic and formal tone
  2. b metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured
  3. c eight feet
  4. d consists of a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme
  5. e consists of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. pattern of end rhymes
  2. process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line
  3. most common form of rhyme in poetry; the rhyme that comes at the end of the lines
  4. repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same
  5. six feet

5 True/False Question

  1. tetrameter → four feet

          

  2. dimeter → two feet

          

  3. Shakespearean (English) sonnet → organized into three quatrains and a couplet; (abab cdcd efef gg)

          

  4. heroic couplet → consists of rhymed iambic pentameter

          

  5. spondee → popular literary form in English since the sixteenth century

          

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