Arts & literature
The “Poetry” quiz — Arts & literature. It has 25 questions in five categories: Forms & Stanzas, Meter & Rhythm, Poetic Devices, Poets & Works, World Traditions. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which poetic form traditionally has 14 lines?
Which Japanese form traditionally has 17 syllables in a 5–7–5 pattern?
Which form has five…
In the gameWhich 39-line form has…
In the gameWhich form uses at…
In the gameWhat two-syllable foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one?
What two-syllable foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one?
What three-syllable foot has…
In the gameWhat is unrhymed verse…
In the gameWhich classical two-line form…
In the gameWhat is repetition of the same word or phrase at the start of successive lines called?
What is the continuation of a sentence across a poetic line break without a syntactic stop called?
What is an internal…
In the gameWhat is reversed parallelism…
In the gameWhat is repetition of…
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Which poet, shown in the portrait, is traditionally credited with the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Which poet, shown in the portrait, wrote the Divine Comedy?
Which poet, shown in…
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In the gameWhat was a medieval Occitan poet-composer of courtly lyric called?
What is a West African keeper of oral history who may also be a poet and musician called?
What was the Scandinavian…
In the gameWhat is the long…
In the gameWhat Sanskrit term means…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.