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1What is a Ballad?
- Ais a poem telling a story often about a tragic event, popular legend, courageous act, or great love.
- Bis a dignified poem expressing sorrow and, sometimes, praise for someone who is deceased.
2What is a Blank Verse?
- Ais a type of unrhymed poetry using iambic pentameter.
- Bpoetry that has no end rhyme, regular rhythm, or regulated stanza and line length. Instead, it relies on natural speech rhythms.
3What is a couplet?
- Ais two successive lines of rhyming verse having the same number of feet.
- Bis a dignified poem expressing sorrow and, sometimes, praise for someone who is deceased.
4What is an Elegy?
- Ais a dignified poem expressing sorrow and, sometimes, praise for someone who is deceased.
- Bis a traditional form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables (5-7-5) when translated into English.
5What is an Epitaph?
- Aa serious or humorous poem or statement on a gravestone commemorating the deceased.
- Bpoetry that has no end rhyme, regular rhythm, or regulated stanza and line length. Instead, it relies on natural speech rhythms.
6What is a free verse?
- Apoetry that has no end rhyme, regular rhythm, or regulated stanza and line length. Instead, it relies on natural speech rhythms.
- Bis poetry whose prime purpose is to entertain or amuse.
7What is a Haiku?
- Ais a traditional form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables (5-7-5) when translated into English.
- Bis a longer lyrics poem having a serious subject and dignified style, often address to some person, natural creature, or material object.
8What is a light verse?
- Ais poetry whose prime purpose is to entertain or amuse.
- Bis a longer lyrics poem having a serious subject and dignified style, often address to some person, natural creature, or material object.
9What is a Limerick?
- Ais a light verse form containing five mixed iambic and anapaestic lines rhyming AABBA.
- Bis a brief, music-like poem about nature, love or death expressing strong emotions and thoughts.
10What is lyric?
- Ais a brief, music-like poem about nature, love or death expressing strong emotions and thoughts.
- Ba lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter with a complicated rhyme pattern.
11What is a narrative?
- Ais a form of poetry that tells a story. In narrative poetry, the emphasis is on plot, external events, and physical action.
- Bpoetry that has no end rhyme, regular rhythm, or regulated stanza and line length. Instead, it relies on natural speech rhythms.
12What is an Ode?
- Ais a longer lyrics poem having a serious subject and dignified style, often address to some person, natural creature, or material object.
- Bis a light verse form containing five mixed iambic and anapaestic lines rhyming AABBA.
13What is a satire?
- Ais a form of light verse notable for its wit and ridicule.
- Bis the analysis of a poem to determine its meter (rhythm pattern) and the length of its lines.
14What is a scansion?
- Aa lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter with a complicated rhyme pattern.
- Bis the analysis of a poem to determine its meter (rhythm pattern) and the length of its lines.
15What is a sonnet?
- Aa lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter with a complicated rhyme pattern. Most common ones are the Shakespearean and the Petrarchan.
- Bis a dignified poem expressing sorrow and, sometimes, praise for someone who is deceased.
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