This is a song written in praise the coming of dawn
Aubade
100
This is a song or chant for the dead
Dirge
100
This is a poem that consists of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter.
Couplet
100
This is a poem written without a specific metrical pattern
Free Verse
100
"The class parted like the Red Sea for Moses," is an example of.....
Simile
200
This is a story told in verse and usually meant to be sung
Ballad
200
This is the type of poem that employs iambic pentameter and typically has a rhyme scheme of abba abba abba cde cde
Petrarchan Sonnet
200
This is a poem that relates an episode in a speaker's life through conversational format that reveals the character of the speaker.
Dramatic Monologue
200
This is a long narrative poem
Epic
200
"She sells sea shells down by the sea shore."
alliteration
300
This is verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
300
This is a type of poem that has a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
English or Shakespearean Sonnet
300
This is a long narrative poem
Epic
300
This is the three-line concluding stanza of a Sestina
Envoy
300
This is the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase,sentence or passage.
ambiguity
400
This is a sustained and formal poem setting forth meditations on death or that expresses a wholly solemn tone
Elegy
400
This is a poem of 39 lines of any length divided into six-line stanzas and a three-line concluding stanza
Sestina
400
This is a poem that is highly personal and emotions. It can be as simple as a sensory impression or as elevated as an ode or elegy.
Lyric Poetry
400
This is the "turn" or change introduced in the Sonnet form.
Volta
400
To say "they passed" instead of "died"
euphemism
500
This is a type of lyric poem that addresses subjects of or raises them to an elevated stature
Ode
500
This is a fixed, 19-line poetic structure employing only two rhymes and repeating lines of the poetry according to a set pattern.
What is a Villanelle
500
This is a poem about rural life
Pastoral
500
This is a highly structured poem with two repeating rhymes that is divided into five tercets and a concluding quartrain, and ahs a rhyme scheme of aba, aba, aba, aba,aba, abaa.