A pattern of stressed a unstressed syllables in a poem
What is meter
100
Poetry of this era focuses on stories of heroic actions
What is the ancient epic
100
The act of looking forward; especially a pleasurable expectation
What is anticipation?
100
The rhyme scheme of the following stanza:
O, lest the world should task you to recite
What merit liv'd in me, that you should love
After my death, dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worth prove
What is ABAB
100
made poor; exhausted strength and/or resources
What is impoverished
200
a poetic foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (da DUM)
What is an iamb
200
Poetry of this era includes frequent allusions to Christianity and Greco Roman mythology
What is the Renaissance
200
Expressing feelings of pleasure and approval in an exaggerated way
What is effusive?
200
The meter of the following stanza:
O, lest the world should task you to recite
What merit liv'd in me, that you should love
After my death, dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worth prove
What is iambic pentameter
200
A poem devoted to the praise of a person, animal, or thing
What is an ode
300
a poetic foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (da da DUM)
What is an anapest
300
Poetry from this era often includes supernatural forces
What is the ancient epic
300
The state of being alone
What is solitude
300
The type of figurative language in the following stanza:
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow
What is personification
300
the ordered patterns of rhymes at the ends of the lines in a poem
What is rhyme scheme
400
A poem of fourteen lines, frequently in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet
400
Poetry of this era often focuses on the human relationship with nature
What is Romanticism
400
Pretending shyness in order to be more attractive
What is coy
400
Which of the following illustrates enjambement?
A: And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing or vanished out of sight,
B: All tongues, the voice of the souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
What is A
400
A poetic line containing 4 feet
What is tetrameter
500
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line
What is enjambment
500
Poets of this era experimented with traditional poetic rhyme schemes and meter
What is Romanticism
500
The act of saying goodbye
What is valediction
500
The speaker's tone toward the Greco Roman gods in the following stanza:
'Sub Julio' was I born, though it was late,
And lived at Rome under the good Augustus,
During the time of false and lying gods