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4 line stanza
What is a quatrain?
100
14 line poem Double Jeopardy: Name the three types we studied and their rhyme schemes
What is a sonnet? What is Elizabethan/Shakespearean- abab cdcd efef gg Spenserian- abab bcbc cdcd ee Petrachan- abbaabba cde cde, or cdc cdc
100
literature developing plot and characters through dialogue and action
What is drama?
100
long narrative poem on a serious subject
What is an epic poem?
100
central character who opposes the antagonist
What is the protagonist?
200
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
200
focused on shepherds and pastoral settings
What is pastoral poetry?
200
dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone
What is comedy?
200
a poem telling a story
What is a narrative poem?
200
the voice who talks to the reader
What is the speaker?
300
a group of lines in a poem
What is stanza?
300
focused on themes of love, war, honor, courtly behavior, and carpe diem
What is cavalier poetry?
300
when a writer or character says one thing but means another
What is verbal irony?
300
extended meditative poem in which the speaker reflects upon death
What is elegy?
300
giving human like characteristics to other objects
What is personification?
400
10 syllables, every other is accented
What is iambic pentameter?
400
expresses personal thoughts or feelings
What is lyrical poetry?
400
when a character or reader expects one thing to happen but something else actually happens
What is situational irony?
400
short poem from ancient Greece
What is epigram?
400
a statement that seems to contradict itself
What is a paradox?
500
pattern of rhymes in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
500
uses unexpected images and comparisons, paradoxes, and contradictory statements
What is metaphysical poetry?
500
when the reader knows something the character does not
What is dramatic irony?
500
Double jeopardy: an 8 line stanza, a 6 line stanza, and 2 rhyming lines
What is an octave, a sestet, and a rhyming couplet?
500
ideas, customs, behaviors, or institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society
What is satire?
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