Quiz Poetry Flashcards
What is a stanza?
Series of lines grouped together
What is a line?
A single line of text in a poem
- not necessarily a sentence
- sometimes one sentence can span across several lines
Couplet
2 lines
Tercet
3 lines
Quatrain
4 lines
Quintet
5 lines
Sestet
6 lines
Octave
8 lines
Lyric Poem
- Very popular with Romantic writers
- 1st person account
- Thoughts and feelings
- Usually described specific moment
Sonnet
Specific lyric poem
Consists of 14 lines
Petrarchan sonnet
Octave and sestet (group of 8 lines, group of 6 lines)
Abba abba, cdecde or cdcdcd
Shakespearean sonnet
Three quatrains and a couplet
Iambic pentameter
Abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Rhyme
Repetition of similar sounds
What is end rhyme?
- occurs at the end of two or more lines
- word at end of line
- most common
Rhythm
Sound pattern in poetic language
Two parts of rhythm
- Type of foot
- Number of feet
Foot
Rhythmical unit
-usually 2 or 3 syllables
Stressed= strong or loud syllable
Unstressed= weak or quiet syllable
Iambic
Type of foot
-unstressed, stressed
(Most common)
Trochaic
Type of foot
-stressed, unstressed
Anapestic
Type of foot
-Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed
Dactylic
Type of foot
-Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed
(Rare in English)
Two feet
Dimeter
Three feet
Trimeter
Four feet
Tetrameter
