Vocabulary A
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a poetic "paragraph."
What is a stanza?
A basic structural unit and single row of text in a poem.
What is a line?
A traditional Japanese 3-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable structure, often focusing on nature.
What is a haiku?
How many total lines are in a traditional Shakespearean Sonnet?
What is 14?
The name of the Edgar Allan Poe poem that we listen to in class.
What is The Raven?
Unrhymed poetry, especially that which is written in iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
A composition in which certain letters (usually the first in each line) spell out a word or phrase vertically.
What is an acrostic?
A long narrative poem narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic figures or history.
What is an epic?
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
The mood of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry.
What is ominous, dark, melancholic, somber, etc.?
The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
A word formed from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., buzz)
What is onomatopoeia?
A story-telling poem or song structured in short, rhythmic stanzas.
What is a ballad?
A Shakespearean Sonnet concludes with which structural component?
What is a couplet?
The word repeated as a refrain in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."
What is Nevermore?
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates poetic rhythm.
What is meter?
A short poem expressing the writer's personal emotions and feelings, typically arranged in stanzas.
What is a lyric?
A humorous 5-line verse structured with an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
What meter is a Shakespearean Sonnet written in?
What is iambic pentameter?
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" contains an example of this.
What is internal rhyme?
The repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming stressed syllables in close proximity.
What is assonance?
A metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
A serious reflection or song, typically serving as a lament for someone who has died.
What is an elegy?
The year William Shakespeare was born.
What is 1564?
The year "The Raven" was published.
What is 1845?