poetry terms

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

the repetition at close intervals of the initial constant sound
ex. map-moon

Question 2

assonance

Answer 2

the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sound
ex.vein-made

Question 3

blank verse

Answer 3

poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter

Question 4

consonance

Answer 4

the repetition at close intervals of the final constant sound of the accented syllables
ex. book-plaque-thicker

Question 5

couplet

Answer 5

two successive lines in the same meter linked by rhyme

Question 6

end rhyme

Answer 6

rhymes that occur at the end of the line

Question 7

end-stopped line

Answer 7

a line that ends with a natural speech pause (punctuation)

Question 8

enjambment

Answer 8

run on line with no puncuation

Question 9

english sonnet

Answer 9

a sonnet rhyming with ababcdcdefegg

Question 10

foot

Answer 10

the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse, one accented syllable and one unaccented

Question 11

free verse nonmetrical verse

Answer 11

poetry written in free verse is arranged in lines but has no fixed metrical pattern

Question 12

lamb

Answer 12

a metrical foot with one accented and unaccented sylablle

Question 13

italian sonnet

Answer 13

abbaabba or cdcdcd or cdecde

Question 14

meter

Answer 14

regularized rhythm (trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter)

Question 15

octave

Answer 15

the first eight lines of a sonnet

Question 16

quatrain

Answer 16

a four line stanza

Question 17

refrain

Answer 17

a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines

Question 18

rhyme scheme

Answer 18

any fixed patter on rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas

Question 19

sestet

Answer 19

the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the italian model

Question 20

stanza

Answer 20

a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem