Elements of Poems
A stop or pause in a metrical line marked by punctuation
What is a Caesura?
A type of meter often used in Sonnets where there are five metric feet.
In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare compares his love to a summer's day. This is an example of...
What is a conceit?
This famous poet wrote 154 sonnets in his lifetime.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A paragraph formed from lines grouped together in a poem.
What is a Stanza?
Poems romanticizing rural life.
What is a Pastoral?
This is the number of lines found in every sonnet.
What is 14?
In Sonnet 18, the author begins by comparing his love to a summer's day, and then he shifts away to say that his love will live on while summer will end. This is an example of...
What is a turn?
The rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is ABABCDCDEFEFGG?
A specific name for a group of four lines in a poem.
What is a Quatrain?
A significant shift or redirection in a poem which can be brought on by a change of mood, voice, topic, etc.
What is a Turn?
The name of the poems with an octave followed by a sestet.
What is a Petrarchan Poem?
In Sonnet 116, the author uses the idea of the grim reaper when saying "within his bending sickle's compass come" to say how time comes for all. This vivid description is an example of...
What is imagery?
A figure of speech where something isas less important than it actually is.
What is an understatement?
A grouping of two rhyming lines in a poem, often at the end of Spenserian and Shakespearean sonnets.
What is a couplet?
A self-contradictory phrase used to illuminate truth.
What is a Paradox?
This sonnet style has three interlocking quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet.
What is a Spenserian Sonnet?
In Sonnet 116, the author uses a period in the middle of line 2 to emphasize a separation of the line and cause the reader to pause. This is an example of...
What is Caesura?
A figure of speech using striking exaggeration to emphasize a point.
What is Hyperbole?
A grouping of eight lines, often found in Petrarchan sonnets.
What is an Octave?
An extended metaphor that makes a surprising and often far-fetched comparison between two unlike things.
What is a Conceit?
This sonnet style has the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.
What is a Spenserian Sonnet?
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe has imagery of a shepherd in his field with a lot of nature. This demonstrates what type of poem?
What is a pastoral?
"Seize the Day" in Latin.
What is Carpe diem?
A grouping of six lines, often found in Petrarchan sonnets.
What is a sestet?