Creative writing summative 2 Flashcards
A break in lines mid-expression in poetry
Enjambment
A rhyme wherein only the ends words rhyme
End Rhyme
A made up rhyme
Wrenched Rhyme
A rhyme wherein when at first glance the words look like they rhyme but when read aloud they don’t (break and bleak)
Sight Rhyme
A rhyme that falls between lines, in the middle, rather than being at the end of a line
Internal Rhyme
A rhyme with repetition of the same sounds of 2 or more words in a line
(peter piper picked a peck of pickled pekpek)
Alliteration
A rhyme with the repetition of vowels in proximity to each other in a line.
Assonance
A Japanese style of poetry consisting of 3 lines each with a syllable count of 5-7-5 respectively
Haiku
A poem consisting of unrhymed lines, each 10 syllables. This style of poetry is the closest to ordinary speech.
Blank Verse
A fourteen line poem written in an iambic pentameter, adhering to a set rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
A sonnet consisting of 3 quatrains (four lines) and a couplet (2 lines)
Shakespearean Sonnet
A six stanza poem with a recurrent pattern of end words in a rotating order
Sestina
A French verse poem consisting of 5 three line stanzas, and a final quatrain with the first and third line repeating alternatively in the following stanzas.
Villanelle
The attitude a write takes towards a subject
Tone
A different perspective that the poet is writing from. The name coming from the literal masks used by ancient Grecians in their plays to represent different characters
Persona
The perspective the poem is written from
the POV (point of view)
