Form
Elements
Poem Types
Review
Just for Fun
100

Categorized by its use of a series of repeated units with the same number of lines

What is stanzaic form?

100
Repeated units having the same number of lines

What is a stanza?

100

Characterized by its fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, and flexible structure

What is a sonnet?

100

What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition

What is connotation?

100

A singer whose real name is Robyn Fenty

What is Rihanna?

200

The internal order made from patterns to make an external shape

What is form?

200

The basic unit used in scansion or measurement of a verse

What is a foot?

200
Characterized by its four quatrains and final couplet, with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg

What is an Shakespearean (English) sonnet?

200

A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history

What is an allusion?

200

The only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise

What is Venus?
300

The arrangement of ideas, images, thoughts, and sentences

What is structure?

300

A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines at a fixed position in stanzaic form

What is a refrain?

300

Characterized by its nineteen lines with five tercets and a quatrain

What is a villanelle?

300
A statement or situation containing incompatible elements

What is a paradox?

300

A group of flamingos

What is a flamboyance?

400

Categorized by its traditional pattern applied to the whole poem

What is fixed form?

400

Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem

What is rhyme scheme?

400

Characterized by an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet using two or three additional rhymes

What is a Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet?

400

A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing reform

What is satire?

400

A unicorn is the national animal of this country

What is Scotland?

500

Categorized by its slight elemental design and informal grouping

What is continuous form?

500

The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse

What is meter?

500

A fairly short type of narrative French poetry written in song like stanza form

What is a ballad?

500

A figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

What is metonymy?
500

The 27th decimal in pi

What is three?