Poetry Flashcards
Verse
Term used to describe poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern, that are often, but not necessarily, rhymed
Prose
The way we usually write and speak, no rhyme or economy of words
Stanza
Section of poem/like a paragraph in prose
Couplet
2 lines
Quatrail
4 lines
Repetition
Repeating words, lines, or ideas to make a point
Refrain
A line or group of lines repeated regularly or irregularly
Blank verse
Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (10 syllables, every other syllable is stressed; the way Shakespeare writes his plays)
Rhyme
Repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines
Meter
When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem, it is called meter
Rhythm
Term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry
