Forms of Poetry Flashcards
What is free verse?
Free verse is an open form of poetry.
What is denotation?
Denotation is a translation of a sign to its meaning, precisely to its literal meaning, more or less like dictionaries try to define it.
What is concrete poetry?
Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance.
What is a quatrain?
A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.
What is a tercet?
A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.
What are stanzas in poetry?
In poetry, a stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.
What is an octet in poetry?
In poetry, an octet is eight lines of verse.
What is content in publishing?
In publishing, art, and communication, content is the information and experience directed towards an end-user or audience.
What is irony?
Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.
What is blank verse?
Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.
What is a ballad stanza?
In poetry, a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad.
What is terza rima?
Terza rima is a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme.
What is enjambment?
In poetry, enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.
What is a sestet?
A sestet is the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet, which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines.
What is prose?
Prose is a form of language that exhibits a grammatical structure and a natural flow of speech, rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry.
What is a ballad?
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
What is meter in poetry?
The pattern of poetic stresses is called meter.
What is scansion?
Scansion or a system of scansion is the act of determining and graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse.
What is a refrain?
A refrain is a line or lines that are repeated in music or verse. Because ballads were originally set to music, some ballads have a refrain, or a repeated chorus, just like a song does.
