Features of poetry Flashcards
A type of literature in which
words and rhythm are strung together to form sounds, images, and ideas that might be too
complex or abstract to describe directly.
Poetry
A part of poem with similar
rhythm and rhyme that will
usually repeat later in the
poem.
Stanza
A subdivision of a poem which is composed of
words lined in a row.
Line
It refers to where an author has chosen to end one line of a poem and begin another.
Line break
The author has chosen to end a line without completing a sentence or clause.
Enjambment
A line that completes a sentence or clause.
End-stopped line
Words that end with similar sounds, usually at the end of a line of
the poem.
Rhyme
A rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern.
Meter
5 types of rhyme
- Perfect rhyme
- Consonant rhyme
- Assonant rhyme
- Head rhyme
- Eye rhyme
When the final stressed vowel and all following sounds of two words are identical.
Perfect rhyme
When there are rhyming consonants in words with different vowel sounds.
Consonant rhyme
When there are rhyming vowels in words but with different consonant sounds.
Assonant rhyme
When there are same initial
consonant at the beginning of the words.
Head rhyme
Measuring unit in poetry
Foot
When the words are similar in
spelling but not similar in sound.
Eye rhyme
Rhymes may occur at the ending words of lines in a poem. In this case, occurrence of these rhymes follows a pattern which is known as _______________.
Rhyme scheme
Combination of unstressed and stressed syllable
Iamb
Combination of stressed and unstressed syllable
Trochee
Combination of stressed and two unstressed syllables
Dactyl
Combination of two unstressed and a stressed syllable.
Anapest
Combination of unstressed, stressed, and unstressed syllable
Amphibrach
A metrical foot with a “stressed-weak” syllable pattern, like the word “tro-chee” itself.
Trochee
The term “trochee” originated from the greek word “____________,” originally from the phrase “________________,” which means “_____________________.”
Trokhaios, trokhaios pous, falling or tripping foot
A three-syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which two unstressed
syllables are followed by a stressed syllable.
Anapest
It is much older; they were commonly used in ancient Greek poetry.
Dactyl
____________ is the root word of ‘‘dactyl,’’ meaning ‘‘__________.’’
Daktylos, finger
This refers to the attitude that the
poet takes toward his/her subject.
Tone
The emotional effect to the readers
that the author’s attitude as well as the use and the choice of the words he employed into his poem.
Mood
It creates mental images
about the poem’s subject.
Imagery
It talks about the central idea,
the thought behind what the poet wants to convey.
Theme
A poem often conveys feelings, thoughts and ideas using symbols.
Symbolism
A stanza consisting of 2 lines.
couplet
A stanza consisting of 3 lines.
Tercet
A stanza consisting of 4 lines.
Quatrain
A stanza consisting of 5 lines.
Cinquain
A stanza consisting of 6 lines.
Sestet
A stanza consisting of 8 lines.
Octave
A stanza consisting of 7 lines.
Septet
Limerick rhyme scheme
AABBA
Terza rhyme scheme
ABA BCB CDC DED
A stanza consisting of 14 lines.
Sonnet
Who wrote “Upon Julia’s clothes”?
Robert Herrick
Rhyme scheme used for “Upon Julia’s clothes.”
Triplet rhyme scheme
Who wrote the poem entitled “Scorn not the Sonnet”?
William Words Worth
Imagery is the representation of the ____________.
five senses
