Poetry Basics

Question 1

Rhythm

Answer 1

The pattern of sound created by the varying length and emphasis given to different syllables

Question 2

Meter

Answer 2

The rhythmic pattern created in a line of verse

Question 3

Foot

Answer 3

Basic rhythmic unit into which a line of verse can be divided

Question 4

Sprung rhythm

Answer 4

Feet in which the first syllable is stressed and maybe followed by a variable number of unstressed

Question 5

Iambic pentameter

Answer 5

5 feet, each foot consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable; one of the most popular metrical schemes in English poetry

Question 6

Blank verse

Answer 6

Unrhymed iambic pentameter; the closest resemblance to the rhythms of ordinary speech, giving poetry a more natural feel

Question 7

Free verse

Answer 7

Where is that does not conform to any fix the meter or rhyme scheme; free verse can’t follow rules of composition as strict as difficult as traditional verse, relying on less evident rhythmic patterns to give the poem shape

Question 8

Line and stanza

Answer 8

Poetry generally is divided into two lines of verse . A grouping of lines, equivalent to a paragraph in pros, is called a stanza. On the printed page, linebreaks normally are used to separate stanzas from one another

Question 9

Rhyme

Answer 9

Repetition of similar sounds or the same sound in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs; one common way of creating a sense of musicality between lines of verse

Question 10

End rhyme

Answer 10

Rhyme that comes at the end of the line of verse

Question 11

Internal rhyme

Answer 11

A rhyme between two or more words within a single line of verse

Question 12

Perfect rhyme

Answer 12

An exact match of sounds in words

Question 13

Slant rhyme

Answer 13

Also imperfect rhyme, oblique rhyme, and off rhyme, in which the sounds are similar but not exactly the same: port and heart