Exam #2 Flashcards
A list of vocabulary terms from Chapters 5-9.
Epigram
A brief, pointed, and witty poem.
Limerick
A poem that consists of five predominantly anapestic lines rhyming AABBA; lines 1, 2, and 5 contain three feet, while lines 3 and 4 contain two.
Haiku
A Japanese form poem in which the first line is 5 syllables, the second is 7 syllables, and the last is 5 syllables (17 syllables).
Parody Poem
A humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work.
Symbol
An object, a person, a place, an event, or an action that represents something else.
Irony
A technique that reveals a discrepancy between appears to be and what is actually true.
Theme
A central idea or meaning of a poem.
Satire
Ridiculing a folly or vice in a literary work in order to expose or correct it.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
Assonance
The repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words.
Rhyme
A way of creating sound patterns.
Eye Rhyme
The spellings are similar, but the pronunciations are not, as with bough and cough, or brow and blow.
End Rhyme
In which rhymes come at the end of lines.
Internal Rhyme
In which one of the rhymed words is placed within the line.
Rhythm
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds.
Iambic pentameter
A line of verse in which the rhythm falls within five metrical feet, each consisting of one short/unstressed syllable followed by one long/stressed syllable.
Enjambment
A line break that doesn’t end with a punctuation mark.
Stanza
Consists of a grouping of lines set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.
Terza Rima
Consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme (ex: ABA, BCB, CDC, etc.)
English Sonnet
A poem organized into three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
Italian Sonnet
A sonnet that is divided into two parts (first half: eight lines (octave) that typically rhyme ABBAABBA and second half: six lines (setset) can rhyme CDECDE, CDCDCD, and CDCCDC).
Villanelle
A fixed form consisting of nineteen lines of length divided into six stanzas: five tercets and a concluding quatrain.
Allegory
A story, picture, and poem that can be interpreted to have a hidden meaning.
Scansion
The measurement of stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern.
Euphony
Lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth.
Cacophony
Lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce.
Quatrain
A stanza of
four lines.. The most common stanzaic form in the English language and can have various meters and rhyme schemes.
Tercet
A three-line stanza.
Triplet
When all three lines in a tercet rhyme.
Foot (literary definition)
The basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter.
