| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A three-line Japanese poem with exactly seventeen syllables, often reflecting on nature | Haiku | 100%
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| A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare published a collection of 154 of these | Sonnet | 96%
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| A lengthy narrative poem recounting heroic deeds | Epic | 71%
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| A comical, often bawdy five-line stanza form that originated in Ireland | Limerick | 71%
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| A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or message | Acrostic | 58%
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| Two lines that rhyme and have the same meter | Couplet | 58%
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| A short lyric poem in praise of its subject | Ode | 54%
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| A narrative, melodious poem composed of rhyming quatrains. They were originally accompanied by music and dance | Ballad | 46%
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| A melancholy, mournful, or seriously meditative poem | Elegy | 42%
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| A poem focusing on nature and landscapes, often romanticizing a simple, rural lifestyle | Pastoral | 42%
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| A poem written in unrhymed, metrical lines, usually iambic pentameter. Adapted from Greek and Latin heroic verse | Blank verse | 33%
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| A poem created by rearranging or recontextualizing fragments of preexisting text to impart new meaning | Found poem | 8%
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