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100
The type of rhyme that appears in this line of poetry: "I lost my dog in the midst of fog" (Hint: two possible answers)
What is internal rhyme or exact rhyme?
100
A poem with a rhyme scheme of AABBA.
What is limerick?
100
One type of narrative poem that we discussed.
What is an epic or a ballad?
100
A two foot line in which the feet are composed of stressed and then unstressed syllables.
What is trochaic dimeter?
100
The type of poem located here: Morning cold air sees when ball floats through backyard air-- beautiful sound, swish
What is a haiku?
200
The act of reading a line of poetry and determining the metrical pattern of stresses.
What is scansion?
200
A poem that follows the episodic adventures of a hero who is royalty and completes tasks that seem to be impossible.
What is an epic?
200
The differences between an elegy and an ode.
What is an ode praises a topic, while an elegy focuses on death.
200
A seven-foot line of poetry.
What is heptameter?
200
The type of poem located in this excerpt: It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.'
What is a ballad?
300
The writing of everyday language such as paragraphs and sentences.
What is prose?
300
A poem with 19 lines. Extra points if you can tell me what kind of stanzas this sucker has!
What is a villanelle?
300
Name for a five-line stanza.
What is a cinquain?
300
Perform scansion on this line of poetry: and the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea the name for this type of metered line is:
What is anapestic tetrameter?
300
Type of poem seen below: Doth any maiden seek the glorious fame Of chastity, of strength, of courtesy? Gaze in the eyes of that sweet enemy Whom all the world doth as my lady name! How honour grows, and pure devotion's flame, How truth is joined with graceful dignity, There thou may'st learn, and what the path may be To that high heaven which doth her spirit claim; There learn soft speech, beyond all poet's skill, And softer silence, and those holy ways Unutterable, untold by human heart. But the infinite beauty that all eyes doth fill, This none can copy! since its lovely rays Are given by God's pure grace, and not by art.
What is an Italian Sonnet?
400
A form of verse poetry without form orwithout regular patterns that was invented by Walt Whitman
What is free verse?
400
the two possible rhyme schemes for an English Sonnet
What is abab cdcd efef gg OR abab bcbc cdcd ee?
400
The name for the type of rhyme located below: grudge/ pledge
What is half rhyme, approximate rhyme/ or slant rhyme?
400
The type of foot that has entirely stressed syllables.
What is a spondee?
400
Type of poem seen in the excerpt below: Every morning you wait on a chair, suit, for my vanity, my love, my hope, my body to fill you. I have hardly emerged from sleep, I leave the water, I enter your sleeves, my legs search for the hollow of your legs, and thus embraced by your untiring loyalty I go out to walk the pasture, I enter poetry,
What is an ode?
500
The seasonal word found in the first line of a Haiku
What is a kigo?
500
The type of stanzas that form ballads.
What is quatrains?
500
The type of foot represented by the following word: fluttering
What is a dactyl?
500
The type of metered line that creates blank verse, which usually appears in _______ _________. (Hint need both type of meter and the fill in the blanks to answer.)
What is iambic pentameter and verse drama?
500
The type of poem with which the following nursery rhyme coincides: Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, And down he run, Hickory, dickory, dock.
What is a limerick?