Verse Types Flashcards
1
Q
Verse
A
Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm
2
Q
Prose
A
Language written in everyday, spoken form
3
Q
Iambic pentameter
A
Five sets of ‘iambs’: weak then stressed syllables (de DUM)
Heart beat rhythm
4
Q
Blank verse
A
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
5
Q
Stichomythia
A
A line of iambic pentameter shared by two characters
6
Q
Feminine ending
A
A line which ends on an unstressed syllable
7
Q
Masculine ending
A
A line which ends on a stressed syllables
8
Q
End-stopped line
A
A line which ends with a piece of punctuation
9
Q
Enjabment
A
A line which doesn’t end with punctuation; thought continues
10
Q
Heroic Couplet
A
2 lines next to each other that rhyme
11
Q
Alexandrine
A
12-syllable iambic lines
