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What is the term for a poem that tells a story?


Narrative poem

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What do we call a group of lines in a poem?


Stanza

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What is the Japanese form of poetry with a 5-7-5 syllable structure?


Haiku

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What is the term for a poem that does not rhyme?

Free verse

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What is a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme called?

Sonnet

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What is the repetition of the same starting sound in multiple words called?

Alliteration

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What do you call a comparison using "like" or "as"?

Simile

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What is the term for giving human characteristics to non-human things?

Personification

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What do you call a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared without using "like" or "as"?

Metaphor

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What is the term for the atmosphere or feeling of a poem?

Mood

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What is a poem written to mourn someone’s death called?

 Elegy

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What is the term for a pair of rhyming lines in a poem?

Couplet

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What is a stanza of four lines called?

Quatrain

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What is a long, serious poem about a heroic figure called?

Epic

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Who wrote Annabel Lee?

 Edgar Allan Poe

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What do you call a poem that celebrates or praises something?

Ode

20

What do you call a humorous five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme?

Limerick

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What is the term for words that imitate sounds, like “buzz” or “bang”?

Onomatopoeia

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What is the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry called?

Assonance

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What is a narrative poem that often has a refrain called?

Ballad

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Who is known as the Bard of Avon?

William Shakespeare

25

 Which American poet wrote Leaves of Grass?

 Walt Whitman

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Who is the poet of The Tyger?
 

William Blake

25

What type of poem is traditionally written for a wedding?

Epithalamium

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What is the study of poetic forms and meters called?

Prosody