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CSET Elements Of Poetry

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Answer 31 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Haiku
7 feet
3- lined stanza
4 feet
17 syllables - 3 lines: 5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables; depicts a clear picture - a distinct emotion; refers to nature; insightful

2. Epic

3. quintet
1 foot
Unit of rhythmic measurement; a combination of stressed / and unstressed ? syllables
5- lined stanza
Short narrative - usually anonymous - often sung

4. Limerick
5 lines; anapestic; aabba rhyme scheme
5 feet
3 feet
6- lined stanza

5. hexameter
5 lines; anapestic; aabba rhyme scheme
6 feet
7 feet
4 feet

6. iambic (iamb)

7. octameter
6- lined stanza
2 feet
8 feet
Short narrative - usually anonymous - often sung

8. octave
3- lined stanza
2- lined stanza
4- lined stanza
8- lined stanza

9. septameter
8 lines (octave) that state a proposition; 6 lines (sestet) that state the solution; iambic pentameter
3 quatrains (3 x 4 line stanzas) and one couplet (2 line stanza); iambic pentameter; ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme
7 feet
Unstressed stressed ?/ ('I am - I am - I am)

10. foot
1 foot
6- lined stanza
Characters revealed through dialog - description - monologue
Unit of rhythmic measurement; a combination of stressed / and unstressed ? syllables

11. anapestic (anapest)

12. elegy
5 lines; anapestic; aabba rhyme scheme
Written to honor the dead
6 feet
Characters revealed through dialog - description - monologue

13. Shakespearean Sonnet
4- lined stanza
3 quatrains (3 x 4 line stanzas) and one couplet (2 line stanza); iambic pentameter; ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme
Short; expresses personal feelings
Short narrative - usually anonymous - often sung

14. Lyric
Short; expresses personal feelings
6- lined stanza
Unstressed unstressed stressed ??/ ('Anna's pets')
8 lines (octave) that state a proposition; 6 lines (sestet) that state the solution; iambic pentameter

15. Petrarchan Sonnet
8 lines (octave) that state a proposition; 6 lines (sestet) that state the solution; iambic pentameter
2 feet
14 lines; iambic pentameter; varied rhyme schemes
7 feet

16. spondaic (spondee)

17. dactylic (dactyl)

18. sestet
5- lined stanza
3 quatrains (3 x 4 line stanzas) and one couplet (2 line stanza); iambic pentameter; ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme
6- lined stanza
Written to honor the dead

19. septet
7 feet
3 feet
Written to honor the dead
7- lined stanza

20. Ballad
Short narrative - usually anonymous - often sung
2- lined stanza
4 feet
6- lined stanza

21. trimeter
8 feet
3 feet
4- lined stanza
Unit of rhythmic measurement; a combination of stressed / and unstressed ? syllables

22. trochaic (trochee)

23. pentameter
5 feet
14 lines; iambic pentameter; varied rhyme schemes
2 feet
Long narrative - details an epic hero's deeds

24. couplet
3- lined stanza
Characters revealed through dialog - description - monologue
7- lined stanza
2- lined stanza

25. dimeter
2 feet
17 syllables - 3 lines: 5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables; depicts a clear picture - a distinct emotion; refers to nature; insightful
5- lined stanza
7- lined stanza

26. monometer
7 feet
3- lined stanza
1 foot
6 feet

27. Dramatic poetry
Characters revealed through dialog - description - monologue
2- lined stanza
Stressed stressed // ('pond day')
Stressed unstressed unstressed /?? (Duckie's tail)

28. triplet or tercet
1 foot
2- lined stanza
3- lined stanza
17 syllables - 3 lines: 5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables; depicts a clear picture - a distinct emotion; refers to nature; insightful

29. quatrain
4- lined stanza
7 feet
7- lined stanza
8- lined stanza

30. Sonnet
8- lined stanza
3 feet
3- lined stanza
14 lines; iambic pentameter; varied rhyme schemes

31. tetrameter
4 feet
Stressed unstressed /? ('Ugly troll chair')
7- lined stanza
7 feet