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Poetry Trivia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is the author (last name only) of "The Road Not Taken"? | Frost |
| How many syllables are in an iamb? | two |
| How many iambs make up iambic pentameter? | five |
| How many total syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter? | ten |
| What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of "The Road Not Taken"? | ABAAB |
| Identify the sound device: slithering snake | alliteration |
| How many lines are in a couplet? | two |
| How many lines are in an octave? | eight |
| How many lines are in a sestet? | six |
| How many lines are in a quatrain? | four |
| Words that nearly rhyme but are not exact are an example of ___ rhyme. | slant |
| "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is an example of what form of poetry? | ballad |
| "Lucinda Matlock" is an example of which form of poetry? | dramatic monologue |
| A sonnet has ___ line(s). | fourteen |
| A Shakespearian sonnet has ___ quatrain(s). | three |
| A Shakespearian sonnet has ___ couplet(s). | one |
| A blank verse poem has what type of meter? | iambic pentameter |
| What type of rhyme occurs within the lines? | internal |
| A ___ is like a paragraph within a poem. | stanza |
| A ___ is like a narrator within a poem. | speaker |
| True or False: A speaker is always the author of a poem. | False |
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