Based on the number of lines, list the names for each type of the following stanzas:
two line,
three lines,
four lines,
five lines,
six lines,
seven lines,
eight lines,
What is:
couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain, sestet, septet, octave
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A. What form of poem is "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman? B. How do you know this?
What is an elegy; it mourns someone who is dead
100
What are three aspects of a poem that can help create rhythm?
What are meter, repetition, rhyme scheme
100
What is denotation? What is connotation?
Denotation is the precise, literal definition of a word while connotation is the cultural overtones naturally associated with a word (positive or negative)
100
What is the syllable structure for a haiku?
What is 5/7/5
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A. What is the stanza structure for an English Sonnet (Shakespearean)?
B. What is the stanza structure for a Petrarchan sonnet?
What is A. three quatrains and a couplet and B. an octave followed by a sestet.
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What is "apostrophe"?
What is calling out to the dead in a poem; generally used in an elegy.
200
What is blank verse?
What is poetry that does have a meter but does not have rhyme
200
Connotations represent the duality of a word. What is the connotative duality of the word "scrappy"
What is positive (resourceful, clever in means)/ negative (combative, quarrelsome)
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What qualifies a modern poem ?
What is there is no rhyme or rhythm
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A. What are the three most common forms of poetry?
B. Briefly describe how to identify each one.
What is: lyrical (inward emotions of a single speaker); narrative (tells a story/ has a plot line); and descriptive (describes the world surrounding the speaker/ outward-focused)
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Label the following rhyme scheme:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,/
How I wonder what you are./
Up above the world so high,/
Like a diamond in the sky./
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,/
How I wonder what you are!'/
When the blazing sun is gone,/
When he nothing shines upon,/
Then you show your little light,/
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night./
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,/
How I wonder what you are!
What is AABBA/CCDDAA
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What are three types of rhyme patterns?
What are true rhyme, slant/half rhyme, internal rhyme
300
Connotation and denotation of a word exist _______
What is together
300
What is an anecdote?
What is a short and amusing or interesting story about a real person or incident
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A. Identify the form of the following poem;B. what features make it that form?
There was an Old Man of Nantucket/
Who kept all his cash in a bucket./
His daughter, called Nan,/
Ran away with a man,/
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
What is a limerick; it's a cinquain, the rhyme scheme is AABBA, it is humorous, it's a narrative
400
What style of poem is lyrical in nature, has a serious subject, an elevated style, and an elaborate stanza pattern?
What is an ode
400
Poetry is an art form intended to be read ______ or _______
What is aloud/ sung
400
What is the denotation and connotation of the word "dog" in the following line from Elvis Presley's song:
"You ain't nothing but a hound dog"
What is denotation: animal of the canid family/ connotation: someone who is whiny/ begs
400
What is the rhyme scheme:
My baby brother is so small,/
He hasn’t even learned to crawl./
He’s only been around a week,/
And all he seems to do is bawl/
and wiggle, sleep…and leak.
What is AABAB
500
What are three characteristics of an epic poem?
What are: it is a long narrative; it deals with a legend or hero; it contains the supernatural; it is written in a ceremonial style; it has an orderly progress of action; deals with the founding of a nation; requires unity
500
For a haiku: what is the rhyme scheme? what type of stanza is it?
What is there is no rhyme scheme and it is a tercet
500
What are three figurative language devices that are considered sound patterns? Give an example of each.
What are alliteration (scrumptious strudel), assonance (ignorant intentions) , onomatopoeia (pop!)
500
What is a positive and negative connotation of the following:
Wall Street,
Modest,
Nomad,
Hefty,
What is Wall Street (wealth&power vs arrogant&ruthless); modest (conservative vs prude); nomad (free vs homeless); hefty (muscular vs heavy)
500
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart,/ Where bashful flowers blow,/ And blushing birds go down to drink,/ And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble