Poetry Terms Flashcards
Rhythm
A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns in poetry and prose
Meter
A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Iambic Pentameter
Poetry written where each line contains five feet each consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable SHAKESPEARE USED THIS
Blank Verse
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme MOST MODERN
Sonnet
A fourteen line lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter that uses one of several usual rhyme schemes
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Stanza
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
Imagery
Language that appeals to the senses
Ballad
A song that tells a story
Epic
A long story told In poetry which relates the great deeds of a larger than life hero who embodies the values of a particular society
Rhyme
The repot ion of the sound of the stressed vowel and any sounds that follow it in words that are close together in a poem
End Rhyme
When a rhyme occurs at the end of a line of poetry
Internal Rhyme
A rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry
Imperfect Rhyme
When a rhyme is made with sounds that are similar to each other but not exact echoes
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern if rhymes used in a piece of verse usually indicated by letters
