Poetry Set #2

2. The category a particular literary work belongs to: novel, short stories, essays, prose, poetry, nonfiction…
5. A formal poem celebrating a person or topic. It really focuses on the topic, praising and extolling it’s virtues
7. A narrative song. Tells a story from beginning to end
8. A Japanese poetic form built from unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables
10. A pattern of rhymes used in a poem.
16. This kind of poem tells a story, much like a novel does. Often these poems are long, and the many possible varieties include epics and ballads
19. When two or more words in the same line of a poem rhyme, that line is said to have internal rhyme.
22. A long narrative poem describing a quest usually about a hero
23. A fourteen line poem with a rhyme scheme typically written in iambic pentameter. Couplet – A pair of lines, similar in length, which rhyme.

1. A play on words using two identically spelled words, such as putting the trash in a glass jar and processing it when asked to can the trash
3. This term can refer to two things: rhyming lines of poetry and rhyming words.
4. A specific poetic meter. A line of iambic pentameter has exactly ten syllables, and the first syllable is unstressed. The line follows this pattern: unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, etc.
6. A four line stanza.
9. Poetry intended to be performed with musical accompaniment. It might look like a ballad but it doesn’t tell a story
11. A poem lamenting a death while commemorating a life.
12. A syllable delivered with a stronger emphasis, like the first syllable in “poetry”. The accented syllables.
13. A comic imitation of another work
14. Poetry not adhering to a rigid structure. Also known as open form.
15. A poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme built from two long lines, two short lines and another long line, typically bawdy in nature.
17. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
18. Several lines of poetry grouped together, with white space above and below.
20. A line or phrase repeated throughout a poem, particularly at the end of stanzas
21. A poem where the first letter of each line forms a word.