Poetry Terms

Question 1

end rhyme v. internal rhyme

Answer 1

When a poem has lines ending with the words that sound the same
v.
The location of a rhyme within a single line of poetry or across multiple lines

Question 2

slant rhyme

Answer 2

A type of rhyme with words that have alike meanings and not identical sounds at all.

I was down the row
I was walking down the street
I was wondering how
I don’t like cheap

Question 3

masculine rhyme v. feminine rhyme

Answer 3

Final stressed syllables

Long ago
I glowed
v.
A rhyme between stressed syllables followed by 1+ unstressed syllables

I was waken but then I was forsaken

Question 4

consonance

Answer 4

To create certain repeated sounds throughout a written work

Mike likes his new bike.

Question 5

assonance

Answer 5

The repetition of a sound of vowel

The kind knights ride by

Question 6

alliteration

Answer 6

Occurrence of the same letter or sound with closely connected words

Adjacent anomalous anemones

Question 7

iambic meter

Answer 7

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

If you -> da DUM

Question 8

trochaic meter

Answer 8

A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

Dark behind -> DUM da DUM

Question 9

anapestic meter

Answer 9

2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed syllable

underfoot, overcome -> da da DUM da da DUM

Question 10

dactylic meter

Answer 10

1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables

poetry -> DUM da da

Question 11

blank verse

Answer 11

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter

It is not nor it cannot come to good, / But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue

Question 12

free verse

Answer 12

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

For you a thousand times over.
I like cake.

Question 13

anastrophe

Answer 13

rearranging of the normal word order to create a new effect

Yoda talking: “A chance I will take”

Question 14

enjambment

Answer 14

In poetry, a thought or phrase or sentence is split into two lines.

My footsteps made a crunching stomp
As snow and wind they danced a romp.

Question 15

caesura

Answer 15

A break between words within a metrical (pertaining to meter) foot.

It is for you we speak, not for ourselves

Question 16

ode

Answer 16

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 17

elegy

Answer 17

a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

Question 18

lyric poem

Answer 18

a short, emotional poem that expresses the speaker’s feelings and is often written in the first person

Question 19

sonnet

Answer 19

fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme.

Question 20

villanelle

Answer 20

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.