Poetry Lit Terms Flashcards
Rhyme Scheme
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
Slant Rhyme
Words that have similar, but not identical sounds
Masculine Rhyme
A rhyme of final stressed syllables (e.g., blow / flow, confess / redress).
Feminine Rhyme
a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous .)
Internal Rhyme
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
iamb
a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
Trochee
a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.
Spondee
a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.
Dactyl
a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables
Anapest
a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.
Caesura
- (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot.
- (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.
- any interruption or break.
Enjambment
in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
Free Verse
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Blank Verse
verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
Narrative Poem
form of poetry that is used to tell a story
Has elements of Storytelling (Plot, Setting, Characters)
Lyric Poem
refers to a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings
Ballad
a slow sentimental or romantic song / a poem or song narrating a story
Couplet
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
Dramatic Monologue
Type of poem (in different /define speaker/ can be a historical figure) giving a speech to one person “with intensity”
Ode
a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
Villanelle
a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.
Tercet: a set of 3 lines rhyming together
Quatrain: a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
Pastoral Poetry
Known for exploring the relationship between humans and nature, and for romanticizing the ideals of a simple country life.
Diphthong
a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another (as in coin, loud, and side) .
Terza Rima
an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Elegy
A poem/ speech meant for the dead
