Poetic Devices and Structures

The video tutorial covers various poetic forms, including sonnets and haikus, and analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' to illustrate concepts like internal and external rhymes, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. It also discusses different types of poems such as tercets and quatrains, and explains how to identify a sonnet by its rhyme scheme and structure.

What is the structure of a haiku?

• Three lines with 5-7-5 syllables

• Fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme

• Three lines with 7-5-7 syllables

• Four lines with alternating rhymes

Which of the following is an example of an internal rhyme?

• Door and more

• Napping and tapping

• Sky and high

• Blue and true

What is alliteration?

• Words that imitate sounds

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• A rhyme within a single line

Which word pair is an example of onomatopoeia?

• Tapping and rapping

• Weary and dreary

• Door and more

• Nodded and nearly

What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of 'The Raven'?

• ABCDAB

• AABBCC

• ABABCC

• ABCDDB

How many syllables are in the first line of 'The Raven'?

• 10 syllables

• 8 syllables

• 16 syllables

• 12 syllables

What is a tercet?

• A two-line stanza

• A five-line stanza

• A four-line stanza

• A three-line stanza

What is the rhyme scheme of a typical sonnet?

• ABBA CDDC EFFE GG

• ABAB BABA CDCD EE

• AABB CCDD EEFF GG

• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

What is a quatrain?

• A stanza of four lines

• A stanza of three lines

• A stanza of five lines

• A stanza of two lines

What is a couplet?

• Five lines that rhyme

• Three lines that rhyme

• Two lines that rhyme

• Four lines that rhyme