Poetry Basics
The name for a paragraph of poetry.
What is a stanza?
The meaning of sonnet.
What is little song.
The traditional theme of a haiku.
What is nature?
How many rules are there in free verse poetry?
What is zero?
Where did the sonnet originate?
Where is Italy?
A stanza composed of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
The two types of sonnets.
What are Petrarchan and English (Shakespearean)?
The country or origin for haiku.
What is Japan?
Vers libre.
What is free verse in French?
A stanza composed of two lines.
What is a couplet?
The number of syllables in a verse of poetry.
What is meter?
How many lines are in a sonnet?
What is 14?
The typical point of view in an ode.
What is first person?
The country in which free verse originated.
What is France?
The feeling invoked in the reader of a poem.
What is the mood or tone?
Cultures in which poetry is found.
What is all?
The rhyme scheme for a Petrarchan sonnet.
What is abbaabbacdecde.
This form of poetry is an exultation of feeling.
What is an ode?
The name of a poem containing a hidden message or name?
What is an acrostic?
This form of poetry was first written in ancient Greece and Rome.
What is ode?
The longest known poem.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The number of syllables per verse of a sonnet.
What is ten?
The meter of a traditional haiku.
What is 5-7-5?
In free verse the stanza is replaced by this.
What is a complete sentence?
The name of the meter in a sonnet.
What is iambic pentameter?