Poetry List 1

Question 1

– a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

Answer 1

Cacophony

Question 2

– a break between words within a metrical foot, a pause near the middle of a line

Answer 2

Caesura

Question 3

– the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

Answer 3

Enjambment

Question 4

– the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words, the tendency to make a phonetic change for ease of pronunciation

Answer 4

Euphony

Question 5

– a rhyme between stressed syllabus followed by one or more unstressed syllables

Answer 5

Feminine Rhyme

Question 6

– (in verse) a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander pope

Answer 6

Heroic Couplet

Question 7

– a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

Answer 7

Internal Rhyme

Question 8

– a rhyme of final stressed syllables (ex. Blow, flow, ; confess, redress

Answer 8

Masculine Rhyme

Question 9

– a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match

Answer 9

Slight Rhyme

Question 10

– occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark such as a colon. When lines are ends-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax. So when you read an end stopped line, you’ll naturally pause

Answer 10

End stop line