Terminology Flashcards
volta
A turning point in a sonnet
couplet
A two line verso, often rhyming
Quatrain
A four-line verse
sestet
A six line verse
Octet
An eight line verse
enjambment
Run-on lines
Caesura
A mid-line pause
Iambic
One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Trochee
One stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable
spondee
two stressed syllables
Dactyl
One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
Anapest
two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
Trimeter
6 syllables
Tetrameter
8 syllables
Pentameter
10 syllables
imperative mood
A mood that expresses a command
Declarative mood
A mood used to express a statement
Interrogative mood
A mood express a statement
foregrounding
A change in the structure of the sentence to make the opening sentence emphasised
End- focus
A change in the structure that puts emphasis on the last part of the sentence
Syndetic list
using conjunctions to join clauses (and)
Asyndetic list
just a list
Juxtaposition
To place to or more things side by side
Oxymoron
Contradictory words in a phrase
