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🖋️ Poetic Forms & Devices – Year 8
English · Year 8 (KS3) — sonnets, ballads, free verse, enjambment, caesura and other tools of poetic form
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Questions
How many lines does a traditional sonnet have?
10
12
14
16
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In English, a traditional haiku follows which syllable pattern across its three lines?
7-5-7
5-7-5
3-5-3
5-5-7
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What is a refrain in a poem?
A pause in the middle of a line
A line or phrase repeated throughout a poem
A group of lines forming a section
A line that runs on into the next
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What is the defining feature of free verse?
It uses three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables
It has no regular rhyme scheme or metre
It must have exactly fourteen lines
It always rhymes in rhyming couplets
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A sentence runs on from one line of a poem to the next with no punctuation at the line end. What is this called?
Enjambment
Refrain
End-stopped line
Caesura
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In the line 'To be, or not to be: that is the question', what is the pause at the colon called?
A caesura
A couplet
An enjambment
A refrain
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Which poetic form tells a story, often in quatrains, and was traditionally sung?
Sonnet
Dramatic monologue
Haiku
Ballad
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How many syllables are in a regular line of iambic pentameter?
5
10
8
12
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Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess' is a dramatic monologue. What makes it one?
One character speaks to a silent listener
The poet speaks directly as themselves
Two characters speak to each other in turn
A narrator tells a story in sung quatrains
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Which is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
AABB CCDD EEFF GG
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
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