Poetry Flashcards
Glossary to learn terms associated with poetry used during Y031
Stanza.
A group of lines of poetry making up a section of a poem.
Sonnet
A type of poem consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter and often
conforming to one of a small number of different rhyme schemes.
Phonetics
The study of human speech sounds.
Source
An atefact from which something originates; used to provide evidence in
research.
Context
The circumstances in which items, ideas or events are created and produced,
and which can help in interpreting or analysing those items, ideas or events.
Suffragette
A term used to describe activist suffragists who were determined to get the
vote for women whatever the cost. The term was first used by Charles E.
Hands in the Daily Mail to describe members of Emmeline Pankhurst’s
Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). The activists embraced the
description, saying that the term ‘SuffraGETtes’ [sic] implied not only that
they wanted the vote, but also that they intended to get it. The suffragettes
only adopted militant tactics from 1912 onwards.
Suffragist
A general term for supporters of suffrage movements, whether male or female,
radical or conservative, peaceful or militant. Thus, Ada Nield Chew and
Emmeline Pankhurst were both suffragists although their standpoints were
very different. Commonly, to avoid confusion, historians use ‘suffragette’ to
describe the radical and later militant female suffragists (see also suffrage;
suffragette).
Suffrage
The right to vote in elections. A democracy has ‘universal suffrage’, which
means that all adults (with a few exceptions) have the vote.
Text
A book or other work regarded in terms of its content.
Text
In academic study a ‘text can be any set of symbols which can interpreted as having meaning, this could be a book, a spoken account or in the discipline of Art History, an image.
Grammar
The study and use of rules that define the system and structure of a language.
Standard English
The form of the English language widely accepted has being most correct.
Syllable
A ‘unit’ of pronunciation.
Blank verse
Unrhymed poem using iambic pantammeter.
Rhythm
The effect created by the pattern of beats or stresses in a line of poetry, which gives a sense of movement; arranged in such a way as to enhance meaning and expression. Rhythm is determined by the metircal pattern of a poem.
Rhyme
The repetition of similar or near similar sounds occurring at regular intervals, most commonly at the end of lines.
Rhyming Couplet
Two successive lines of poetry that share that share the same rhyme.
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that occurs within lines of poetry, rather than at the ends of lines.
End rhyme
Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines of poetry, the most common form of rhyme.
Meter
The pattern or measurement of a line of poetry as regards it’s rhythm and the arrangements of stressed and unstressed syllables
Iambic pantameter
a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for exampleTwo households, both alike in dignity
Petrarchan sonnet
Denoting the sonnet of the kind used by the 14th century poet Petrarch. The sonnets consist of 14 lines. One octave and one sestet.
Shakespearean sonnet
Sonnet consisting of 3 quatrains each with 4 lines and ending with a rhyming couplet.
Iambic pentameter
A line of poetry consisting of 5 iambs each, or units. Each iamb consists of one short, unstressed syllable followed by one long, stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the most common form of verse in the English language.
