13304007505 | poetry is a mode of writing that focuses on what? | rhythm, meter, and sound as on meaning and communication | 0 | |
13304012402 | what does poetry emphasize? | emphasizes the interaction of sound and sense | 1 | |
13304017680 | definition of poetry varies according to what? | culture and historical period | 2 | |
13304024629 | what might poetry resemble? | songs, chance, prayers/meditations, prose to scription, and narrative, or even visual art | 3 | |
13304030952 | poetry's purposes ranges from what? | religious ritual to popular entertainment | 4 | |
13306142905 | poetry has closer ties to what than prose? | performance | 5 | |
13308754649 | even when not read aloud, poetry is concerned with what? | the auditory and visual way it strikes its audience | 6 | |
13308768477 | what are the nine poetic schools of thought in order? | 1. old english period 2. anglo-norman and middle english period 3. renaissance 4. neoclassicism 5. romanticism 6. victorian period 7. symbolism 8. modernism 9. post modernism | 7 | |
13308811448 | what is the time period of the old english period? | 650-1066 | 8 | |
13308819203 | what is the time period of the anglo-norman and middle english period? | 1066-1500 | 9 | |
13308830051 | what is the time period of the renaissance? | 1500-1600 | 10 | |
13308837132 | what is the time period of neoclassicism? | 1660-1798 | 11 | |
13308844138 | what is the time period of romanticism? | 1798-1832 | 12 | |
13308848954 | what is the time period of the victorian period? | 1832-1910 | 13 | |
13309952330 | what is the time period of symbolism? | 1890-1914 | 14 | |
13309961992 | what is the time period of modernism? | 1914-1965 | 15 | |
13309971691 | what is the time period of postmodernism? | 1965-PRESENT | 16 | |
13309980978 | which poetic schools of thought did poetry represent oral traditions and displays a mixture of Pagan and Christian elements? | old english period | 17 | |
13310004096 | which poetic schools of thought introduced the techniques of alliteration and what we call caesuras? | old english period | 18 | |
13310023756 | which poetic schools of thought was poetry influenced by a dominant French culture? | anglo norman and middle english period | 19 | |
13310070113 | which poetic schools of thought influenced lyric poetry, syllabic meters, rhyme, and the ballad? | anglo norman and middle english period | 20 | |
13310085677 | which poetic schools of thought was seen as the rebirth of humanistic culture? | renaissance | 21 | |
13310103780 | which poetic schools of thought was the focus on mankind rather than God? | renaissance | 22 | |
13310118805 | which poetic schools of thought acquainted readers with the Greek and Roman classics? | renaissance | 23 | |
13310128963 | which poetic schools of thought marked a new interest in science and art? | renaissance | 24 | |
13310141231 | which poetic schools of thought introduced classic meters: the sonnet and baroque style (showcased exaggeration, excuse, and extravagant imagery)? | renaissance | 25 | |
13310152602 | which poetic schools of thought was poetry characterized by a controlled mutation of classic forms with emphasis on restraint, correctness, order, and good taste? | neoclassicism | 26 | |
13310163453 | which poetic schools of thought introduced regular, predictable forms like the heroic couplet? | neoclassicism | 27 | |
13310175991 | which poetic schools of thought resisted the restrictions of the Neoclassical Period and celebrated the imagination over rationality, passion, and dreams over reason? | romanticism | 28 | |
13310184797 | which poetic schools of thought celebrated external reality and isolated individuality over collective humankind? | romanticism | 29 | |
13310193062 | which poetic schools of thought introduced blank verse, ballad lyrics, and order? | romanticism | 30 | |
13310199545 | which poetic schools of thought was characterized by attention by poetry's romantic legacy of fantasy and freedom in the industrialized world's growing emphasis on money, propriety, security, religious faith, and patriotism? | victorian period | 31 | |
13310216601 | which poetic schools of thought is romantic, escapist, and employs traditional form? | victorian period | 32 | |
13320706951 | which poetic schools of thought rebelled against the uptight realism of Victorian literature and returned to the imaginative freedom of Romanticism, but this time focused on the mystical and mythical connection between the visible world and what lies beyond it? | symbolism | 33 | |
13320717296 | which poetic schools of thought characterized by a conscious reexamination of what poetry is? | modernism | 34 | |
13320722644 | which poetic schools of thought is a breakdown of traditional forms and styles? | modernism | 35 | |
13320726487 | which poetic schools of thought was attention paid to the density of language and the intensity of imagery? | modernism | 36 | |
13320872040 | which poetic schools of thought explored alienation, urbanization, technology and its advancement, and introduced free verse? | modernism | 37 | |
13320881717 | which poetic schools of thought reexamines the nature and function of poetry? | postmodernism | 38 | |
13320886599 | which poetic schools of thought eliminates traditional distractions between cultures and assumptions about language? | postmodernism | 39 | |
13320890563 | which poetic schools of thought does free verse become the dominant form? | postmodernism | 40 | |
13321100630 | we read poetry for what? | emotional and intellectual discovery to feel and experience something about the world and ourself | 41 | |
13321102653 | what is a line of poetry called? | verse | 42 | |
13321106460 | what is a grouped lines of verse that serve as the building blocks for a poem called? | stanza | 43 | |
13321123816 | what is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line? | meter | 44 | |
13321127280 | what is also described in terms which include both the kind of feet and the number of feet per line? | meter | 45 | |
13321130978 | what are the four types of meter? | accentual, syllabic, accentual-syllabic, and quantitative | 46 | |
13322107399 | what type of meter is a verse in which the total number of stressed syllables per line remain constant regardless of the number of total syllables? | accentual | 47 | |
13322127838 | what type of meter is a verse in which the total number of syllables per line remains constant regardless of stressed syllables? | syllabic | 48 | |
13322136246 | what type of meter is a verse that maintains a specific number of stressed syllables per line as well as a more or less fixed number of total syllables? | accentual-syllabic | 49 | |
13322145436 | what type of meter is a verse based on a syllable's length or duration in time? | quantitative | 50 | |
13322158023 | what a basic unit of rhythm and the building block of poetry? | foot | 51 | |
13322158089 | what is composed of a certain number of stressed and unstressed syllables? | foot | 52 | |
13322168970 | what is the process of figuring out the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line? | scansion | 53 | |
13322190468 | poems are classified by what? | number of feet per line | 54 | |
13322195778 | a one foot poem is called | monometer | 55 | |
13322199603 | a two foot poem is called | bimeter | 56 | |
13322201847 | a three foot poem is called | trimeter | 57 | |
13322201848 | a four foot poem is called | tetrameter | 58 | |
13322206310 | a five foot poem is called | pentameter | 59 | |
13322208852 | a six foot poem is called | hexameter | 60 | |
13322214213 | a seven foot poem is called | heptameter | 61 | |
13322218343 | an eight foot poem is called | octometer | 62 | |
13322231713 | there is usually a _____ between feet, but poets sometime make _____ _____ between feet in a line | pause, extra pauses | 63 | |
13322252488 | what is an extra pause referred to as? | caesura | 64 | |
13322258330 | what does // represent? | caesura | 65 | |
13322262109 | what are the 6 types of feet? | iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, amphibrach, spondee | 66 | |
13322285759 | what type of feet is two syllables (unstressed, stressed)? | iamb | 67 | |
13322294655 | what type of feet has two syllables (stressed, unstressed)? | trochee | 68 | |
13322307735 | what type of feet has three syllables (stressed, unstressed, unstressed)? | dactyl | 69 | |
13322313267 | what type of feet three syllables (unstressed, unstressed, stressed)? | anapest | 70 | |
13322342642 | what type of feet has three syllables (unstressed, stressed, unstressed) | amphibrach | 71 | |
13322365054 | what type of feet has two syllables (stressed, stressed)? | spondee | 72 | |
13322375931 | which feets have two syllables? | iamb, trochee, spondee | 73 | |
13322379712 | which feets have three syllables? | dactyl, anapest, amphibrach | 74 | |
13322388279 | what are the four common types of meter? | iambic pentameter, blank verse, ballad, and free verse | 75 | |
13322401561 | which type of meter has five iambs per line? | iambic pentameter | 76 | |
13322408541 | which type of meter has unrhymed iambic pentameter? | blank verse | 77 | |
13322412607 | which type of meter has alternating tetrameter and trimeter (usually iambic and rhyming)? | ballad | 78 | |
13322418700 | which type of meter has verse without a fixed meter or rhyme, but uses formal elements of pattern or verse? | free verse | 79 | |
13322425310 | poets can manipulate the shape and pattern of what to create various effects? | line | 80 | |
13322447362 | what are the seven types of lines? | end stopped line, enjambed, refrain, stanza, cantos, couplet, sonnet | 81 | |
13322457835 | which type of line has a clause or sentence concludes at the end of line of poetry? | end stopped line | 82 | |
13322464861 | which type of line has a clause or sentence runs over into the following line? | enjambed | 83 | |
13322472425 | which type of line has a line that is repeated one or more times in a poem to create a haunting effect? | refrain | 84 | |
13322479469 | which type of line has a line(s) gathered into spacial segments? | stanza | 85 | |
13322488945 | which type of line has a very long (book length poem) and divided into large segments (like chapters of a book) | cantos | 86 | |
13322492153 | which type of line has two consecutive rhyming lines? | couplet | 87 | |
13322495342 | which type of line is a 14-lined poem? | sonnet | 88 | |
13408539053 | what is the most easily recognized characteristic of poetry which is repetition of similar sounds in poetry? | rhyme | 89 | |
13408539054 | what can also be arranged into different configurations for effect? | rhyme | 90 | |
13408539055 | the configurations poetry is arranged in are referred to as what? | rhyme scheme | 91 | |
13408539056 | what are the five most common rhyme schemes? | couplet, tercet, terza rima, quatrain, and sestets | 92 | |
13408539057 | what type of rhyme scheme is grouping of three lines that usually have one rhyme called? | tercet | 93 | |
13408539058 | what type of rhyme scheme is a triple group of lines consisting of interlocking triplets ("aba" "bcb" "cdc") often with a final couplet rhymed with the second line of the last triplet? | terza rima | 94 | |
13408539059 | what type of rhyme scheme is a group of four lines rhymed in various ways? | quatrain | 95 | |
13408539060 | what type of rhyme scheme is a group of six lines rhymed in various ways? | sestets | 96 | |
13408539061 | what are the seven types of rhyme? | feminine rhyme, masculine rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, sound devices, perfect/exact rhyme, and slant/off rhyme | 97 | |
13408539062 | what type of rhyme occurs if the rhyme syllables are stressed before the final syllable in a line? | feminine rhyme | 98 | |
13408539063 | what type of rhyme occurs if the rhyme syllables are stressed in the last line? | masculine rhyme | 99 | |
13408539064 | what type of rhyme are rhymes appearing at the end of lines in poetry? | end rhyme | 100 | |
13408539065 | most poems are this type of rhyme, but rhymes elsewhere in the lines are possible | end rhyme | 101 | |
13408539066 | what type of rhyme are rhyme(s) before the end of the line of poetry? | internal rhyme | 102 | |
13408539067 | what type of rhyme are the elements that enhance upon its meaning by adding a musical quality to the language? | sound devices | 103 | |
13408539068 | what are the four types of sound devices? | assonance, alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia | 104 | |
13408539069 | what type of sound device is the repetition of the vowel sound (not necessarily rhyming exactly)? | assonance | 105 | |
13408539070 | what type of sound device is the repetition of the beginning consonant sound? | alliteration | 106 | |
13408539071 | what type of sound device is the repetition of final consonant sounds? | consonance | 107 | |
13408539072 | what type of sound device is the use of the word that sounds like what it means? | onomatopoeia | 108 | |
13408539073 | what type of rhyme is the rhyming vowel and consonants are exactly the same? | perfect/exact rhyme | 109 | |
13408539074 | what type of rhyme is an imperfect rhyme in which either the consonants or the vowels rhyme, but both do no? | slant/off rhyme | 110 | |
13408539075 | what are the six types of poetic forms? | ottava rima, haiku, limerick, villanelle, sestina, sonnet | 111 | |
13408539076 | what type of poetic form is an eight line stanza of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abababcc? | ottava rima | 112 | |
13408539077 | what type of poetic form is a form that contains 17 syllables arranged in groups of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively? | haiku | 113 | |
13408539078 | what type of poetic form is a 5 line stanza with the rhyme scheme aabba and the first and the fifth lines may end with the same word? | limerick | 114 | |
13408539079 | what type of poetic form is a form consisting of 19 lines divided into 6 stanzas? | villanelle | 115 | |
13408539080 | what type of poetic form are the first five stanzas tercets? | villanelle | 116 | |
13408539081 | what type of poetic form is the last stanza a quatrain? | villanelle | 117 | |
13408539082 | what type of poetic form has two lines and two refrains? | villanelle | 118 | |
13408539083 | what type of poetic form is line one repeated in line 6, 12, and 18? | villanelle | 119 | |
13408539084 | what type of poetic form is line three repeated in lines 9, 15, and 19? | villanelle | 120 | |
13408539085 | what type of poetic form is a from consisting of six six lines stanzas followed by a three line stanza? | sestina | 121 | |
13408539086 | what type of poetic form are the same six words repeated at the end of lines throughout in a predetermined pattern? | sestina | 122 | |
13408539087 | what type of poetic form is a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter? | sonnet | 123 | |
13408539088 | what type of poetic form do the first eight lines (octave) pose a question or dilemma that is resolved in the final six lines called a sestet? | sonnet | 124 | |
13415695131 | what are the three major types of sonnets? | Shakespearean, Spenserian, Petrarchan | 125 | |
13415708740 | what type of sonnet is divided into four parts, three quatrains with the rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefef, and a rhymed couplet gg? | Shakespearean sonnet | 126 | |
13415716827 | what type of sonnet is a variant of the Shakespearean form which link the three quatrains with an interlocked rhyme scheme ababbcbccdcdee? | Spenserian | 127 | |
13415722726 | what type of sonnet is an Italian sonnet, divided into two main parts--an octave (8 lines) with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba all together or abbacddc all together, and a sestet (6 lines) with a rhyme scheme cdecde or cdcdcd? | Petrarchan | 128 | |
13415732940 | what is often refered as diction which is the choice of words in a poem and there are generally two types, high and low diction? | language of poetry | 129 | |
13415750498 | what language of poetry suggests a sophisticated or educated speaker? | high diction | 130 | |
13415754433 | what language of poetry has a simpler, less cultivated speaker? | low diction | 131 | |
13415759570 | what is a word or set of words that paints a verbal picture of an object, idea, mood, or situation? | image | 132 | |
13415763700 | what are the two types of image? | literal and figurative | 133 | |
13415772478 | what type of image is a physically visible object in a poem? | literal | 134 | |
13415776467 | what type of image is not really present, but it conjured up by your imagination? | figurative | 135 | |
13415785328 | what is the major idea the poem illustrates? | theme | 136 | |
13415793347 | what is the most basic element of a poem and its meaning? | theme | 137 | |
13415796033 | what is often suttle and sometimes sensual? | theme | 138 | |
13415801008 | what is the aspect of the speaker's voice that reveals his/her attitude toward the theme or subject of the poem? | tone | 139 | |
13415804894 | what is the discrepancy between expectation and reality, but in the case of poetry is between words and intension? | irony | 140 | |
13415814053 | what is a reference in a poem to a literary work, historical event, philosophical idea, mythological story, cultural product, religious credo, and there are numerous other, but these are the ones you see most often? | allusion | 141 | |
13415818005 | what is the repeating of words, phrases, lines, sound, or any other elements of syntax? | repitition | 142 | |
13415821905 | what is the direct address to an inanimate object or idea? | apostrophe | 143 | |
13415849163 | what are the different levels of meaning? | connotative, denotative, figurative meaning | 144 | |
13415862062 | what type of level of meaning is a person's associations with something, even an unconscious association with it, are conveyed by a single word? | connotative | 145 | |
13415866462 | what type of level of meaning is the dictionary meaning of something? | denotative | 146 | |
13415889603 | what type of level of meaning is straight forward significance? | denotative | 147 | |
13415896647 | what type of level of meaning is a type of connotative meaning, but it is figurative meaning conveyed using figures of speech that require a leap of imagination? | figurative meaning | 148 | |
13415911099 | what type of figurative meaning is a comparison between two things not using like or as? | metaphor | 149 | |
13415922485 | when using a metaphor, you'll have an object, idea, or phrase substituted for what? | another in order to suggest that there is a similarity between the two | 150 | |
13415935134 | what is a figure of speech using the words like or as to compare two objects? | simile | 151 | |
13415942408 | what is a figure of speech that refers to a whole entity by identifying only a part of it? | synecdoche | 152 | |
13415949131 | what is a figure of speech that refers to something by identifying an object or term closely associated with it? | metonymy | 153 | |
13415963123 | what is a figure of speech where human qualities are assigned to an inanimate idea? | personification | 154 | |
13415966769 | what is an image that means something more than what is shown? | symbol | 155 | |
13415980334 | what is a tale with two or more levels of meaning--literal and symbolic? | allegory | 156 | |
13415987883 | what juxtaposes two opposite or contradictory words to reveal an interesting truth? | oxymoron | 157 | |
13416002508 | what is also refered to as an understatement? | paradox | 158 | |
13416013233 | what litotes and is a statement that means less than you intend it to, or an idea that seems contradictory but is actually true? | paradox | 159 | |
13416026174 | what is an overstatement and suggests exaggeration? | hyperbole | 160 | |
13430131108 | poetic drama is not necessarily associated with what? | rhyme or meter | 161 | |
13430137948 | poetic genres are defined according to what? | theme, style, and attitude | 162 | |
13430146683 | what type of genre is a long, serious narrative poem concerning a hero figure or a group of heroic figures engaged in historical or mythical events that are usually of great significance to a culture? | epic | 163 | |
13430151679 | what is an example of an epic poem? | odyssey | 164 | |
13430156890 | what type of genre is written in dialogue or monologue using the voice of a character created by the poet and not identifiable with the poet? | dramatic | 165 | |
13430164356 | what type of genre s written in a subjectively rich voice often with a strong emotional element? | lyric | 166 | |
13430171172 | what type of genre is first person and focuses on inner experiences rather than outward story? | lyric | 167 | |
13430176404 | what type of genre includes sonnets, odes, elegies, and haikus? | lyric | 168 | |
13430185001 | what is a lyric poem of extreme emotion celebrating someone or something often addressed to its subject? | ode | 169 | |
13430188876 | what is a poetic lament for the dead or absent? | elegy | 170 | |
13430192987 | what focuses on a single thing? | sonnet | 171 | |
13430677903 | what is a form of free verse that lacks the formal shape of poetry as well as lacking regular rhyme and meter? | prose | 172 | |
13430680986 | what tells a story and usually includes ballads and epics? | narrative | 173 | |
13430687336 | what is a song-like poem that tells a story and often deals with romance or adventure? | ballad | 174 | |
13430694204 | what has an imaginary character speaking to a silent listener? | dramatic monologue | 175 | |
13430740004 | what is a brief and witty poem that is usually making a seteric or humorous point? | epigram | 176 | |
13430745964 | what doesn't have a form like the others, but is most likely written in couplet? | epigram | 177 | |
13430760307 | what is the fundamental nature of reality referred to as? | metaphysical | 178 | |
13430764319 | what raises questions and issues about how and why stories are told? | metaphysical | 179 |
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