Poetry Quiz

♡ Poetry

Language arranged in lines, with a regular rhythm and often a definite rhyme that evokes feelings

♡ Verse

• Another word for poetry, a poem, a line of poetry, or a stanza of a poem

• A group of visually structured lines arranged together to form a single unit the lines do not necessarily follow the accepted rules of grammar + punctuation

♡ Poetic License

Freedom to write as you wish

♡ Prose

• Writing that resembles everyday speech

• Language that is NOT poetry; writing or speech in its normal continuous form, without the rhythmic of visual structure of poetry 

⋆˙⟡ Dramatic Poetry

• Poetry in the form of a play

• Poetry in which one or more characters speak

• Verse plays such as Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet

⋆˙⟡ Narrative Poetry

• Poetry that tells a story

• Narrative poetry has a plot, setting, and characters

• Homer’s epic poems “Illiad” and “Odysessy” & "Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” are examples

• Ballads are also narrative poems — (Ballads tell a story with short regular stanzas, a steady rhythm, a simple pattern of rhymes and often a refrain)

⋆˙⟡ Lyric Poetry

• Verse, usually brief, which focuses on the emotions or thoughts of the speaker — expressing personal feelings

• Poetry with a musical quality 

⋆˚꩜｡ Diction

Writer’s choice of words

⋆˚꩜｡ Speakers

The voice in a poem

⋆˚꩜｡ Imagery

• Language that appeals to the reader’s senses

• Words or phrases that use description to create pictures in the readers mind

⋆˚꩜｡ Stanza

A group of related lines that form a division of a poem

— Couplet, quatrain, sestet, octave-best known patterns

ᯓ★ Rhythm

Pattern of beats; a musical quality based on repetition

ᯓ★ Rhyme

A similarity in the sound of word endings 

ᯓ★ End Rhyme

Rhyming words at the end of DIFFERENT lies

— It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

ᯓ★ Internal Rhyme

Rhyming words within ONE LINE of poetry

— “Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”

ᯓ★ Meter

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line 

Repetition

A sound, word phrase, or line that is repeated for emphasis and unity

ᯓ★ Alliteration

Repetition of consonant sounds in a group of words close together

ᯓ★ Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds in a group of words close together

⋮ ⌗ ┆Haiku

• Japanese form of Poetry

— Matsuo Basho - Greatest Haiku Poet ever

• Has 17 syllables

— Three lines of five, seven, and five syllables

• Presents images from nature and from everyday life

— Usually two contrasting images to suggest a greater meaning

• Often contains a seasonal word or symbol

• Presents a moment of discovery or enlightenment

⁠❥ Allusion

An indirect reference to somebody or something

⁠❥ Sonnet

14 lines with a regular rhyme pattern

— Italian or Petrachan (2 stanzas — 8 lines and 6 lines)

— English or Shakespearean (3 quatrains and a couplet

⁠❥ Rhyme

Couplet

— Two lines of verse that form a unit alone or as part of a poem — especiall