Poetry Quiz

Ballad

• A meditation on death

• A humorous, nonsensical story

• A past affair with vivid dialogue

• A philosophical argument

Conceit

• An elaborate, "violent" metaphor usually associated with Metaphysical poets

• A form of humorous poetry with rhyme

• A specific type of rhythm

• A poetic structure involving a repeating pattern of syllables

Couplet

• A stanza of four lines

• A two-line stanza that rhymes

• A 14-line poem

• A form of rhythmic unit

Elegy

• Love and romance

• Death and lamentation

• A heroic deed

• Nature and the country life

End rhyme

• Rhyming within the middle of a line

• Rhyming at the end of a line

• A rhyme that is imperfect

• Rhyming of a word with its opposite

Enjambment

• A rhyme at the end of each line

• The continuation of a sentence over a line break

• A fixed number of syllables in a line

• A stanza with four lines

Epic poem

• A short narrative poem about nature

• A long, narrative poem celebrates the good deeds of a hero

• A poem focused on a single theme

• A light verse poem meant to entertain

Half rhyme or near rhyme

• Perfect rhymes

• Rhyme that appears to rhyme in spelling but does not

• Rhymes that occur at the beginning of a line

• Rhyming of stressed syllables

Feminine rhyme

• The rhyme is in the second-to-last syllable

• The rhyme falls on the last syllable

• The rhyme is located at the beginning of the line

• The rhyme occurs within a line

Poetic foot

• A type of meter

• A metrical unit in verse

• A stanza of four lines

• The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit