Poetry Terms Quiz

What is the term for the emphasis or stress placed on a beat in poetry?

• Scansion

• Inversion

• Accent

• Cadence

Which poetic form is a narrative poem, often in quatrains with a refrain?

• Sonnet

• Ballad

• Ode

• Epic

What is the term for a stanza made up of two lines?

• Sestet

• Couplet

• Tercet

• Quatrain

Which poetic form has no regular metrical or rhyming patterns and mimics speech?

• Lyric

• Blank verse

• Free verse

• Elegy

What is the term for the reverse of the prevailing foot in poetry?

• Inversion

• Scansion

• Cadence

• Accent

How many lines are there in a Spenserian stanza?

• Seven

• Eight

• Ten

• Nine

Which poetic form is a formal poem of some dignity or length with complex organization?

• Sonnet

• Dizain

• Ode

• Epic

What is the term for the individual metrical pattern of a line or poem?

• Scansion

• Accent

• Cadence

• Inversion

Which poetic form is a long, narrative poem about heroic characters and major events?

• Epic

• Free verse

• Elegy

• Lyric

What is the term for a stanza made up of four lines?

• Sestet

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Tercet