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
