Poetic Terminology Flashcards
Form: Lyric
A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings (typically in 1st person)
Form: Ballad
Poems that tell a story
Form: Hymn
A poem praising God or the divine
Usually has rhyming couplets etc so it sounds like a hymn
Pastoral
A work of literature portraying an idealised version of country life
Trimeter
A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet
Tetrameter
A line of verse consisting of four metrical feet
Heptameter
A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet
Metrical foot
A metrical foot consists of one stressed🤷♀️syllable and at least one unstressed 😎
Iamb
A unit of meter with two syllables, where the first is unstressed😎 and the second is stressed 🤷♀️
Dactyl
A three syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which a stressed syllable🤷♀️ is followed by and unstressed syllable😎
Anapaestic
A metrical foot in the line of a poem that contains three syllables, of which the first two syllables are short and unstressed 😎😎, followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed🤷♀️
Trochee
A two syllable metrical pattern in which a stressed syllable 🤷♀️ is followed by an unstressed syllable 😎
Spondee
A metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables🤷♀️🤷♀️
Pyrrhic
A metrical foot that consists of two unstressed syllables 😎😎
Couplet
A pair of successive line of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length
Quatrain
A stanza of four lines
Alternate rhyme
ABAB
Where alternating lines rhyme e.g in a quatrain, line one rhymed with line three and line two with four
Internal rhyme
Where the rhyme occurs within a single line of verse
Sight rhyme
A rhyme in which two words are spelt similarly but pronounced differently/ they look as though should rhyme but do not
Symbol
A mark, sign or word that signifies an idea
Allusion
Something that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a particular thing or person
Graphology
Physical characteristics and patterns of handwriting
Intertextual reference
The shaping of a texts meaning by another text
Stanza
A verse of poetry
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words ( meat and bean e.g)
Consonance
The recurrence of similar sounding consonants in close proximity
Consonant
A speech sound that is not a vowel and produced when breath is at least partially obstructed (by teeth)
You have to open and close your mouth to say consonants - Z, B, T, G
Vowel
Produced with an open tract/ breath flows out and is not blocked by teeth
A, E, I, O, U
Caesura
A pause near or in the middle of a line
Enjambement
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet or stanza
