ENGLISH Flashcards
is a type of literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene, or tells a story in a concentrated, lyrical arrangement of words.
Poetry
Is a collection of metrical lines of poetry. It is used to define the difference of poetry and prose. It contains rhythm and pattern and more often than not, rhyme.
Verse
It contains both rhyme and meter.
Traditional Form
It does not have any repeating patterns or rhymes.
Free Verse
It refers to a poem with a meter but without rhyme.
Blank Verse
It refers to the same syllable or word sounds in a poem. It is
the repetition of similar sounds.
Rhyme
Rhymes can be repeated at the end of a line or stanza or
can continue throughout a poem, and it is called a
rhyme
scheme
It is a unit of poetry composed of lines that relate to a
similar thought or topic. In prose, it is like a paragraph, and
in a song, it is like a verse.
Stanza
It is a stanza with two lines that rhyme.
Couplet
It is a stanza with three lines.
Tercet
It is a stanza with four lines with the second and
fourth lines rhyming.
Quatrain
stanza with five lines
quintet
stanza with 6 lines
sestet
stanza with 7 lines
septet
stanza with 8 lines
octet
