| Name: | Literary terms, part II: poetry |
| Description: | Commonwealth of Virginia SOL literary terms. Part II: poetry |
| Keywords: | literature, English |
| # Cards: | 14 |
| Q1: | The art or work of a poet |
| A1: | poetry |
| Q2: | A long narrative poem in elevated style presenting the adventures of a central hero who possesses superhuman qualities and generally embodies national ideals. |
| A2: | epic |
| Q3: | A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form. |
| A3: | ballad |
| Q4: | Verse in the form of a monologue by one character or a dialogue between two characters. The dramatic qualities of this type of poetry often result from stressful situations and conflicting emotions. |
| A4: | dramatic poetry |
| Q5: | Verse in which a speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings. Usually short and can take many forms. |
| A5: | lyric poetry |
| Q6: | A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types - the Italian and the English. |
| A6: | sonnet |
| Q7: | A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde. |
| A7: | Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet |
| Q8: | A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet, but is often structured into octave and sestet with the principal break in thought coming at the eighth line. |
| A8: | Shakespearean (English) sonnet |
| Q9: | A serious poem lamenting the death of an individual or group. |
| A9: | elegy |
| Q10: | A long lyric poem, serious and dignified in subject, tone, and style, usually written to celebrate an event or honor a person. |
| A10: | ode |
| Q11: | Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas. |
| A11: | rhyme scheme |
| Q12: | Unrhymed iambic pentameter (five combinations of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable). |
| A12: | blank verse |
| Q13: | Non-metrical verse. Arranged in lines, it may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed metrical pattern expectations. |
| A13: | free verse |
| Q14: | Five combinations of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable. |
| A14: | iambic pentameter |
