poetic terms

Question 1

Enjambment

Answer 1

When a phrase/sentance runs
onto the next
line

Question 2

Caesura

Answer 2

A break or pause in a line of poetry, dictated by the natural rhythm of the language and/or enforced by punctuation (//)

Question 3

Stanza

Answer 3

like a paragraph
commonly 2,3,4,6 or 8 lines
separated by a blank space

Question 4

Metre

Answer 4

unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats.

the arrangement of stressed/unstressed syllables to occur at apparently equal intervals

basically like how shakespeare has 10 syllables per line…there’s rules

Question 5

Internal rhyme

Answer 5

when theres a rhyme in a poem between two or more lines in the middle of the line (instead of the end)

Question 6

end rhyme

Answer 6

normal ryhme

Question 7

elegy

Answer 7

sad poem

Question 8

Free verse

Answer 8

without rhythm or rhyme schemes
don’t follow da rules
still provide artistic expression.

was i allowed to write da instead of the?
Don’t care…i’m using’ free verse.

Question 9

narrative poem

Answer 9

poem telling a story

Question 10

another word 4 contrast

Answer 10

antithesis