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Types of Poetry
The Rhythm of the Beat
Caution: Device at Work
The Rhythm of the Name
Describe It
100
A poem that consists of six stanzas of six lines each followed by a three-line conclusion (or envoy).
What is a sestina?
100
buh-BUM
What is an iamb?
100
"He looks like an ape."
What is a simile?
100
William Shakespeare
What is trochaic dimeter?
100
Villanelle
What is composed of five tercets (three lines) and a final quatrain?
200
In which the poet capitalizes on the freedom either to create their own form or use the traditional fixed form in a more flexible way
What is open or free form poetry?
200
bum-bum-BUM
What is an anapest?
200
From "Prufock": "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes"
What is personification?
200
Matthew Francis Carton
What is trochaic trimeter?
200
Sonnet
What is a 14-line poem divided by three quatrains and a rhyming couplet or an octave and a sestet?
300
Basic convention include repeated lines and stanzas in a refrain
What is a ballad?
300
BUM-BUM
What is a spondee?
300
"Let me not the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments..."
What is enjambment (or an enjambed line)?
300
Mackenzie Nye
What is iambic dimeter?
300
Epigram
What is a brief witty poem that is often satirical?
400
In which the story is subordinated to song, and action to emotion
What is lyric poetry?
400
BUM-bum-bum
What is a dactyl?
400
"O'er"
What is elision?
400
Leigh Tong
What is spondaic monometer?
400
Elegy
What is a lament for the dead?
500
A very specific love lyric expressing complaint that the dawn means the speaker must part from his or her lover
What is an aubade?
500
BUM-bum
What is a trochee?
500
"And you, my father, there on the sad height, CURSE, BLESS, me now with your fierce tears, I pray."
What is oxymoron?
500
Madeleine Chicorel
What is dactylic dimeter?
500
Ode
What is a long stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form