Poetry Terms Test

Front

What is a metrical line containing five feet?

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Pentameter

Front

What is a four-line stanza or division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme?

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Quatrain

Front

What is a formal lament for a dead person or an expression of a tragic sense of life?

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Elegy

Front

What is a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation?

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End-stopped Line

Front

What is the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words?

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Alliteration

Front

What is a poem that tells a story, often with a musical quality?

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Ballad

Front

What is a poem that expresses strong feelings or thoughts, often in a formal structure?

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Ode

Front

What is a pair of rhymed lines in a poem?

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Couplet

Front

What is the basic unit of measurement in poetry, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables?

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Foot

Front

What is the pattern of beats or stresses in a line of poetry?

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Meter