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A Shakespearean sonnet has how my lines?
a. 6
b. 8
c. 14
d. 12
C. A Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines!
What is the rhyme scheme pattern of the first 4 lines of this Shakespearean sonnet?
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:"
a. ABCD
b. ABAB
c. ABBA
b. ABAB
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: B
What is the term for a group of lines in a poem that are separated from other groups by a blank line or indentation?
a. stanza
b. line break
c. verse
a. stanza
What is the term for a stanza with 4 lines that may or may not rhyme?
a. Sestet
b. Quatrain
c. Tercet
b. Quatrain
What is the term for an intentional place where one line of poetry ends and the next begins?
a. skippidy-doo-da-day
b. stanza break
c. line break
c. line break
What is the term for the language/word choice used in a poem, including the vocabulary, phrasing, and grammar?
a. Poetic vocabulary
b. Lexicon
c. Diction
c. Diction
What type of rhyme is being used in the following 2 lines of poetry?
"The ladies men admire, I’ve heard,
Would shudder at a wicked word."
a. near rhyme
b. end rhyme
c. internal rhyme
b. end rhyme
"The ladies men admire, I’ve heard,
Would shudder at a wicked word."
End rhyme refers to rhymes that occur in the final words of lines of poetry.
What is the term for a type of diction that uses informal and familiar language?
a. Colloquial diction
b. Formal diction
c. Archaic diction
a. Colloquial diction
An oxymoron is what you call a phrase that contains 2 contradictory elements.
Which of the following is NOT an example of an oxymoron?
a. Bittersweet
b. Jumbo shrimp
c. Small fry
c. Small fry
What is the term for a poetic device that portrays abstract ideas through characters, events, and figures?
a. Allusion
b. Allegory
c. Alliteration
b. Allegory
What is the name of a poetic form that is NOT limited by a regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms?
a. Blank verse
b. Free verse
c. Petrarchan Sonnet
b. Free verse
What is the term for a type of rhyme in which 2 words (located at the end of a line of poetry) end in similar—but not identical—consonant sounds.
Example:
"She loved her hat,
She always had."
a. End rhyme
b. Slant rhyme
c. Full rhyme
b. Slant rhyme
Which of the following is NOT an example of a sound device?
a. Onomatopoeia
b. Oxymoron
c. Dissonance
b. Oxymoron
What poetic meter is a Shakespearean sonnet in?
a. Iambic Pentameter
b. Trochaic Pentameter
c. Dactyl
a. Iambic pentameter
a line of poetry that has 10 syllables that follow the pattern "stressed" "unstressed"What type of rhyme is being used in the following lines of poetry?
"I went to town and bought a gown,
I left the car, it wasn't far."
a. End rhyme
b. Slant rhyme
c. Internal rhyme
c. Internal rhyme
TRUE or FALSE?
Literary devices can also be poetic devices
TRUE
Which poet wrote this:
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?"
a. Walt Whitman
b. Simon Cowell
c. William Shakespeare
c. William Shakespeare
What is the name for the poetic device in which a thought or an idea in a poem carries over from one line to the next?
a. Enjambment
b. Blank Verse
c. Couplet
a. Enjambment
What is the name of a poetic form that uses a consistent meter, usually iambic pentameter, to create a rhythmic pattern, but does not rhyme?
a. Blank verse
b. Limerick
c. Ballad
a. Blank verse
Which type of repetition is being used in the following lines of poetry?
"The moth and the fish-eggs are in their place,
The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place,
The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place."
a. Anaphora
b. Refrain
c. Epistrophe
c. Epistrophe