Poetry Lit Terms

Question 1

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 1

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

Question 2

Slant Rhyme

Answer 2

Words that have similar, but not identical sounds

Question 3

Masculine Rhyme

Answer 3

A rhyme of final stressed syllables (e.g., blow / flow, confess / redress).

Question 4

Feminine Rhyme

Answer 4

a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous .)

Question 5

Internal Rhyme

Answer 5

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

Question 6

iamb

Answer 6

a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

Question 7

Trochee

Answer 7

a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.

Question 8

Spondee

Answer 8

a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.

Question 9

Dactyl

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Anapest

Answer 10

a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.

Question 11

Caesura

Answer 11

• (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.

Question 12

Enjambment

Answer 12

in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

Question 13

Free Verse

Answer 13

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 14

Blank Verse

Answer 14

verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

Question 15

Narrative Poem

Answer 15

form of poetry that is used to tell a story
Has elements of Storytelling (Plot, Setting, Characters)

Question 16

Lyric Poem

Answer 16

refers to a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings

Question 17

Ballad

Answer 17

a slow sentimental or romantic song / a poem or song narrating a story

Question 18

Couplet

Answer 18

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

Question 19

Dramatic Monologue

Answer 19

Type of poem (in different /define speaker/ can be a historical figure) giving a speech to one person “with intensity”

Question 20

Ode

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Villanelle

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Pastoral Poetry

Answer 22

Known for exploring the relationship between humans and nature, and for romanticizing the ideals of a simple country life.

Question 23

Diphthong

Answer 23

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) .

Question 24

Terza Rima

Answer 24

an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Question 25

Elegy

Answer 25

A poem/ speech meant for the dead