Structure

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, map-moon, kill-code, preach-approve)

Question 2

anapest

Answer 2

metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (for example, understand)

Question 3

anapestic meter

Answer 3

a meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests

Question 4

approximate rhyme

Answer 4

(imperfect rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme, or oblique rhyme)
term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes (for example, arrayed-said)

Question 5

assonance

Answer 5

repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat-ran-amber, vein-made)

Question 6

ballad meter

Answer 6

stanzas formed of quatrains of iambs in which the first and third lines have four stresses (tetrameter) and the second and fourth lines have three stresses (trimeter). usually the second and fourth lines rhyme (abcb), although ballad meter is often not followed strictly

Question 7

blank verse

Answer 7

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

Question 8

consonance

Answer 8

repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, book-plaque-thicker)

Question 9

couplet

Answer 9

two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked my rhyme

Question 10

dactyl

Answer 10

metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (for example, merrily)

Question 11

dactylic meter

Answer 11

a meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls

Question 12

end rhyme

Answer 12

rhymes that occur at the ends of lines

Question 13

end-stopped line

Answer 13

a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation - opposite of enjambment

Question 14

enjambment

Answer 14

(run on line)
a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line - opposite of an end-stopped line

Question 15

English (or Shakespearean) sonnet

Answer 15

sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; often structured like the Italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eighth line

Question 16

feminine rhyme

Answer 16

rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (picky, tricky)

Question 17

foot

Answer 17

basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables

Question 18

free verse

Answer 18

nonmetrical verse. arranged in lines, may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed metrical pattern or expectation

Question 19

half rhyme

Answer 19

consonance on the final consonants of the words involved

Question 20

heroic couplet

Answer 20

constructed by a sequence of two lines of (usually rhyming) verse in iambic pentameter. if they do not rhyme they are usually separated by extra white space

Question 21

iamb

Answer 21

a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (for example, rehearse)

Question 22

iambic meter

Answer 22

a meter in which the majority of feet are iambs, the most common English meter

Question 23

internal rhyme

Answer 23

a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occur within the line

Question 24

Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet

Answer 24

a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde

Question 25

masculine rhyme

Answer 25

(single rhyme)

rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (rhyme, sublime)

Question 26

meter

Answer 26

regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time

Question 27

octave

Answer 27

1) an eight-line stanza

2) first eight lines of a sonnet, especially one structured in the manner of an Italian sonnet

Question 28

perfect rhyme

Answer 28

rhyme in which is when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to another. types include masculine and feminine among others

Question 29

pentameter

Answer 29

a metrical line containing five feet

Question 30

quatrain

Answer 30

1) four-line stanza

2) four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme

Question 31

refrain

Answer 31

a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanziac form

Question 32

rhyme

Answer 32

repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work. may find multiple ways to rhyme within a verse.

Question 33

rhyme scheme

Answer 33

any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas

Question 34

scansion

Answer 34

process of measuring verse, that is of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern

Question 35

sestet

Answer 35

1) six-line stanza

2) last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model

Question 36

spondee

Answer 36

metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented (true-blue)

Question 37

stanza

Answer 37

group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout a poem

Question 38

syntax

Answer 38

arrangement of words to form phrases, clauses, and sentences; sentence construction

Question 39

terza rima

Answer 39

three-line stanza form borrowed from the Italian poets. rhyme scheme is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc.

Question 40

tetrameter

Answer 40

metrical line containing four feet

Question 41

trimeter

Answer 41

metrical line containing three feet

Question 42

triple meter

Answer 42

meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables. Anapestic and dactylic are both triple meters.
(If more than 25% of the feet in a poem are triple, its effect is more triple than duple. Should be referred to as a triple meter.)

Question 43

trochaic meter

Answer 43

meter in which the majority of feet are trochees

Question 44

trochee

Answer 44

a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (barter)