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Poetic Types
Scansion
Nouns and Pronouns
Poetic Vocabulary
Adjectives and Adverbs
100
This type of poetry has three lines and a total of seventeen syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village though
What is [U,/]? (iambic)
100
The basic definition of a noun.
What is any person, place, thing, or idea?
100
This means a word that audibly imitates the sound it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Adjectives and adverbs are both this type of word.
What is a modifier?
200
This type of poetry has an undefined rhythm and rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
200
Filled with mingled cream and amber I must drain that glass again.
What is [/,U]? (trochee)
200
The basic definition of a pronoun.
What is a word that takes the place of noun(s) and/or pronoun(s)?
200
This is bad poetry.
What is doggerel?
200
These are two of the questions adjectives answer.
What are (any two) which one? What kind? How many?
300
This type of poetry was made famous by Edward Lear.
What is a limerick?
300
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
What is [U,U,/]? (anapaest)
300
These are all the different ways nouns can be described. (8 terms)
What are common, proper, countable, uncountable, concrete, abstract, collective, and compound?
300
This word means the act of breaking a clause across one or more lines of poetry.
What is enjambment?
300
These are two of the questions adverbs answer.
What are (any two): Where? When? How? To what extent?
400
There are two main styles of sonnet. This is the type made famous by Shakespeare.
What is Elizabethan?
400
Just for a handful of silver he left us there Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
What is [/,U,U]? (dactyl)
400
This is the difference between reflexive and intensive pronouns.
What is reflexive are grammatically necessary to the sentence, whereas intensive simply add strength to the sentence?
400
This term is defined as the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a line of poetry.
What is consonance?
400
When two objects are being matched against one another, this is the type of adjective a person should use.
What is comparative?
500
Name six types of poetry.
What are (any six): Sonnet, epigram, riddle, haiku, senryu, terza rima, sestina, ode, epic, limerick, villanelle, etc?
500
All ready to put up the tents for my circus, I think I will call it the Circus McGurkus!
What is [U,/,U]? (amphibrach)
500
Besides reflexive and intensive, these are the other possible types of pronouns (5 types, not counting "possessive").
What are personal, interrogative, demonstrative, relative, and indefinite?
500
This term is defined as the measured repetition of stresses in a line.
What is meter?
500
These are the types of words adverbs modify.
What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?