Boring Poetry Terminology

Question 1

Form or formal choice is, loosely, just how the poem is organized or presented

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True

Question 2

What is an anaphora?

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Repetition of word(s) at the beginning of successive phrases/clauses/lines

Question 3

Free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or follow strict, consistent metrical rules.

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True

Question 4

A prose poem is a composition that (while not broken into lines) demonstrates other traits common in poetry.

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True

Question 5

An end rhyme is a rhyme that occurs at the end of a line.

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True

Question 6

Free verse is when no rhyme scheme or meter apply.

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True

Question 7

What is syntax?

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the arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences

Question 8

Meter (metre) is the rhythmic structure of a poem.

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True

Question 9

A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically having ten syllables per line.

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True

Question 10

Select the pyrrhic foot:

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u u

Question 11

Define diction

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word choice

Question 12

What is consonance?

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just like assonance but with consonant sounds rather than with vowel sounds

Question 13

What is an anapest?

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an anapestic foot: u u —, 2 short or unstressed syllables followed by 1 long or stressed syllable

Question 14

What is an image system?

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This might need not be a traditional family!, A "family of images" contained within a poem., Maybe the family is broken, or chosen, or blended.

Question 15

What is a trochee?

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a trochaic foot: — u, one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable

Question 16

The villanelle is a structured poem made up of 5 tercets followed by a quatrain, with 2 repeating rhymes and 2 refrains

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True

Question 17

What is a quatrain?

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a four line stanza, a stanza with four lines

Question 18

What is assonance?

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the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a poem

Question 19

What is a cesura?

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(This can just be white space, or blank space.), a stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary, often a phrase or clause

Question 20

In poetry, pentameter refers to a line of verse containing five metrical feet.

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True

Question 21

What is a cesura?

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a stop or pause in a metrical line, often marked by punctuation

Question 22

What is a tercet?

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a three line stanza

Question 23

What is an iamb?

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an iambic foot: u —

Question 24

An internal rhyme is a rhyme that occurs within the same line.

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True

Question 25

What is an example of consonance?

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hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock, tick tock, euphonous fish, respected spectacle

Question 26

In poetry, "dimeter" refers to a metrical line consisting of two metrical feet

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True

Question 27

In poetry, a monometer refers to a line of verse containing only one metrical foot

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True

Question 28

IN POETRY, what are feet?

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rhythmic unit consisting of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 29

How many feet are in a hexameter?

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6

Question 30

Tetrameter is a line or verse of poetry with four measures or feet.

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True

Question 31

What is a stanza?

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lines arranged as a unit in a poem

Question 32

A slant rhyme is...

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when something doesn't quite fit the rhyme scheme

Question 33

What is a couplet?

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a two line stanza (the traditional form for the love poem)

Question 34

What is a dactyl (dactylic)?

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__ u u

Question 35

What is an example of assonance?

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the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plains, try to light the fire, cough drop, throngs among long donkeys

Question 36

What is a spondee?

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a spondaic foot: — —, a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables

Question 37

Trimeter is a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet.

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True

Boring Poetry Terminology

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Boring Poetry Terminology

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