Poetry Flashcards
type of literature where words and rhythm are strung together
poetry
4 features of poetry
-central theme
-mental images
-provokes thought
-has elements
similar rhythm and rhyme; division of poem with set of lines
stanza
2 stanza
couplet
ex of stanzas
-couplet
-tercet
-quatrain
-cinquain
-sestet
-septet
-octave
-sonnet
3 stanza
tercet
4 stanza
quatrain
5 stanza
cinquain
6 stanza
sestet
7 stanza
septet
8 stanza
octave
14 stanza
sonnet
line of poem or group of lines
line
subdivision of poem
line
author chosen to end line
line break
2 line break
-enjambment
-end-stopped line
end line with incomplete thought
enjambment
end line with complete thought
end-stopped line
rhythm that continuously repeats
meter
single basic pattern
meter
words end with similar sounds usually at end
rhyme
unit of rhythm
meter
resemblance of sound
rhyme
