PREPARATION MANUAL 2026
◉ Meter. Answer: A measured rhythmic pattern
◉ Mood. Answer: Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for a
reader
◉ Narrative Poetry. Answer: A poem that gives a description of
actual or fictional events
◉ ODE. Answer: A lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, on a serious
subject. These are typically addressed to one person/thing.
◉ Onomatopoeia. Answer: Words where the spelling creates a sound
◉ Personification. Answer: Giving non-human objects human
characteristics
◉ Quatrain. Answer: A poem or stanza of four lines
◉ Refrain. Answer: Repeated word, phrase, or group of lines