Formal Poems
What is the difference between blank verse and free verse?
Blank verse doesn't rhyme, but still uses iambic pentameter
Free verse is still "poetic", but doesn't observe any set meter
How many lines in a Shakespearean sonnet?
14
Who was a Harlem Renaissance poet who used the sonnet to describe more personal and societal issues in the 1920's?
Countee Cullen
What is a haiku often about?
Nature
What is a conceit?
A wild or unusual comparison
What is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
AB, AB, CD, CD, EF, EF, GG
If I were to say, "All hands on deck" I would be using one type of figurative language?
Metonymy
How many lines in a villanelle?
19
If the last two lines of a sonnet rhyme AND are end-stopped, what are they called.
Heroic couplet
If a poem addresses something or someone who isn't there as Dickinson did when she wrote, "Papa Above! Regard a Mouse!" it is using what device?
Apostrophe
How many lines and how many syllables in a haiku?
3 lines
5, 7, 5
What topic are traditional sonnets (as in during Shakespeare's and Petrarch's time) about?
Love OR time
What is an elegy?
A meditation on death or another serious topic
If a couplet is two lines, how many lines in a quatrain?
4
What type of meter (meaning syllables and what is unstressed and stressed) does Shakespeare use in all of his sonnets (except one of them)
Iambic Pentameter