What Is Poetry

Poetry uses tools like

• they choose there friends carefully.

• they choose there lunch carefully.

• they choose there punctuation carefully.

• they choose there words carefully.

So, a villanelle, what's that all about?

• A 19 line poem with 5 tercets and a quatrain

• A 5 line poem with a tercet and a rhyming couplet

• A poem with a villain as the speaker

• A poem that is too daft to be credible

What's a free verse poem?

• A poem notes for its unconformity to poetic structures

• An unstructured poem of iambic pentameter

• A poem that uses imagery and contains blank verse

• A three line, one stanza poem of varying syllable counts

What's an ode?

• A lengthy lyric with a silly subject

• A lengthy lyric with a serious subject

• A poem with an elevated style to mock something

• A word that rhymes with toad and that's the only relevant thing

What is a ballad

• A sad song

• A poem that pokes fun at something

• an Italian lyric

• A narrative poem that often has a refrain

What is blank verse?

• a poem with no fixed metrical pattern

• a poem that is rhymed or unrhymed

• a poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

• a brief line in a verse

What is an idyll?

• A dystopia

• A repetitive place

• A pastoral poem, depicting a perfect country life

• Asonnet depicting an ode of a lyric

What is an epigram?

• A brief poem in memory of someone

• A short witty poem, sometimes satiric

• A message on a headstone

• A thing that replaced a telegram

What is a sestina?

• A poem with 16 lines

• A poem where the words at the start are repeated

• A poem with a fixed form of 6-line stanzas and a 3-line closing stanza

• A poem with a fixed form of 3-line stanzas and a 6 line closing stanza

What's a dramatic monologue?

• A poem in which a speaker addresses the audience

• A poem in which the speaker addresses a friend

• A poem in which the speaker addresses a silent listener

• A poem that is highly dramatic and monotonous