This is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
What is a ballad?
100
A poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost.
What is an elegy?
100
It is a poem that is usually about nature.
What is a haiku?
100
A poem with very strict rules.
What is a villanelle?
100
A poem written about the death of Abraham Lincoln.
What is "O Captain O Captain"?
200
The word ballad comes from this French word.
What is ballade?
200
Elegies are sung with this instrument.
What is a flute?
200
Haikus are from this country.
What is Japan?
200
This is the word for a three line stanza.
What is a tercet?
200
"Annabel Lee" is was written by this author.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
300
Characteristics include hardships, tragedies, love, and ________
What is romance?
300
The poet speaks from this point of view.
What is first person?
300
Haikus only contain this number of lines.
What is three?
300
This is the word for a four line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
300
In "Annabel Lee" who killed Annabel Lee?
What is the angels?
400
The word ballade means
What is "dancing song"?
400
This word refers to the compositions that are of Greek and Latin poetry origins.
What is elegiac?
400
Haikus are used to do this.
What is paint a picture in the reader's minds?
400
This is the rhyme scheme for a quartrain.
What is ABAA?
400
In "O Captain, O Captain" the author says that despite Lincoln being killed, the good thing is that the battle was already won. What battle is he referring to?
What is the Civil War/the freeing of the slaves?
500
There are six types of ballads. They are stall and ______.
What is lyrical, popular, blue, bush, and fusion?
500
An elegy may ask these profound questions:
What is the nature of life and death & the immortality of the soul?
500
Haikus follow this type of pattern.
What is 5, 7, 5 pattern?
500
These lines are paired as the final couplet.
What is lines 1 & 3.
500
This popular female R&B singer is known for not only her iconic braids (which she wore when she first appeared in the music industry) but for her popular ballad songs.