STRUCTURE POETRY Flashcards
Identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all the sound following that vowel in two or more words
Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs between words with a single line of poetry
Internal rhyme
Pattern of end rhyme in a poem
Rhyme scheme
Appetition a similar vowel sounds in a series of words
Assonance
Repetition of terminal consonant sounds and more rarely internal consonants that creates extra emphasis on the word involved
Consonance
Repetition of initial consonant sound
Alliteration
Use of words that sound like what they mean
Onomatopoeia
Process of identifying the two major features of meter in a particular poem
Scansion
Unrhymed iambic penta meter
Blank verse
Poetry with no distinguishable rhyme meter or line length
Free verse
Poem in which the following are true first line contains one strased I syllable second to the third three and forth for the first line like the first has only stressed syllable
Cinquain
Division of a poem
Stanza
poem meant to be sung usually telling a story and having 4 line stanzas
Ballad
Two lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme
Heroic couplet
14 lines of iambic pentameter has several varieties a rhyme scheme
Sonnet