Poetry terms

Question 1

Ballad

Answer 1

a narrative poem that usually includes a repeated refrain

Question 2

Blank verse

Answer 2

unrhymed iambic pentameter, a line of five feet

Question 3

Cacophony

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the use of words in poetry that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious sound

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Conceit

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elaborate figure of speech combining possible metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or oxymoron

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Couplet

Answer 5

A pair of rhyming lines with identical meter

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Elegy

Answer 6

A mourning poem of lament for a tragic individual or event

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Free verse

Answer 7

A type of poetry that differs from conventional verse forms in being “free” from a fixed pattern of meter or rhyme

Question 8

Iambic pentameter

Answer 8

A line of verse having five metrical feet (Shakespearse’s most frequent writing pattern)

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Meter (rhythm)

Answer 9

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Rhyme

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exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words

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Rhyme scheme

Answer 11

The pattern of rhyme. The traditional way of marking these patterns of rhyme is to assign a letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound at the end of each line

Question 12

Sonnet

Answer 12

A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme

Question 13

Iambic

Answer 13

~,/ de DUMM

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trochaic

Answer 14

/,~ DUMM de

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anapestic

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,,/ de de DUMM

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dactyllic

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/,~,~ DUMM de de

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End-stopped

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a pause at the end of a line

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Caesura

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a pause that occurs within a line

Question 19

Enjambment

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a line that “runs over” to the next line without pause

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Single (masculine) Rhyme

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1 syllable rhyme (i.e. dame, same)

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Double (feminine) Rhyme

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2 syllable rhyme (i.e. napping, tapping)

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Sight (eye) rhyme

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two words that look alike but don’t sound alike (i.e. Love, Jove)

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Slant (imperfect) Rhyme

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two words that are nearly rhymed but have a slight variation in vowel sounds (i.e. Lake, Fate)

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Identical Rhyme

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Basically homonyms

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End Rhyme

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the rhyming words occur at the ends of lines

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Internal Rhyme

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the rhyme occurs inside the line

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Assonance

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the repetition of identical vowel sounds (i.e. lake, fake)

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Consonance

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repetition of identical consonant sounds (i.e. Bill, ball)

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Onomatopia

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Words which sound like their meanings (i.e. Hiss)

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Metonymy

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Substitution of one word for another closely related word (i.e. “the pot’s boiling)

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Synechdoche

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Substitution of part for the whole (i.e. “All hands on deck”)

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Antithesis

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Using contrasts for a accumulative effect

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Litotes

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a form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite (i.e. “he was not unmindful)

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Rhymed Couplet

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2 lines with identical rhymes

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Tercet, triplet

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3 lines- any rhyme scheme, any meter

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Quatrain

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4 lines- any rhyme scheme, any meter

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Sestet

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6 lines (often 3 sets of couplets) any rhyme scheme, any meter

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Octave

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8 lines- any rhyme scheme, any meter

Question 39

Spenserian stanza

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9 lines rhyming a b a b b c b c c
lines 1-8 iambic pentameter
line 9 iambic hexameter

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Villanelle

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19 lines

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Narrative poetry

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i.e. ballad, epic

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Lyric poetry

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i.e. dirge, elegy, ode