Verse Vocab for Keats

Question 1

Iamb

Answer 1

Rhythm: buh Buh
Pattern: Unstressed/stressed

Question 2

Trochee

Answer 2

Rhythm: Buh buh
Pattern: Stressed/unstressed

Question 3

Spondee

Answer 3

Rhythm: Buh Buh
Pattern: Stressed/stressed
“We real”

Question 4

Anapest

Answer 4

Rhythm: buh buh Buh
Pattern: Unstressed/unstressed/stressed

Question 5

Dactyl

Answer 5

Rhythm: Buh buh Buh
Pattern: Stressed/unstressed/stressed

Question 6

Verse

Answer 6

Poetry structured by both a consistent metrical pattern and a consistent rhyme scheme

Question 7

Blank verse

Answer 7

Poetry structured by consistent meter but an inconsistent rhyme scheme

Question 8

Free verse

Answer 8

poetry with inconsistent meter and rhyme

Question 9

Poetic feet

Answer 9

individual rhythmic units made up of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables; types of feet include iambs, trochees, spondees, anapest, and dactyle

Question 10

rhythm

Answer 10

metered patterns within poetry verses modulating the reader’s experience of the poem’s sound, tension, and time

Question 11

sonnet

Answer 11

structure of 14 lines

Question 12

ode

Answer 12

-ten-line stanzas w/ specific rhyme scheme; elaborately structured; praises or glorifies an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.

Question 13

3 types of ode

Answer 13

the Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular.

Question 14

3 parts parts of an ode

Answer 14

the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also enter

Question 15

irregular ode

Answer 15

uses rhyme, but not the three-part form of the Pindaric ode, nor the two- or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode.

Question 16

pindarics

Answer 16

a class of loose and irregular odes greatly in fashion in England during the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century;

according to Milton,

“The measure of verse used in the chorus is of all sorts, called by the Greeks ‘monostrophic’, or rather ‘apolelymenon’, without regard had to strophe, antistrophe or epode, which were a kind of stanzas framed only for the music, then used with the chorus that sung; not essential to the poem and therefore not material; or, being divided into stanzas or pauses, they may be called ‘alloeostropha’.”

Question 17

The English ode’s most common rhyme scheme

Answer 17

ABABCDECDE

Question 18

Pyrric

Answer 18

the pyrrhic consists of two unaccented syllables together. (to a)

Question 19

internal rhyme

Answer 19

rhymes in the middle of lines

Question 20

end rhyme

Answer 20

rhymes at the ends of lines

Question 21

slant rhyme

Answer 21

“rhyming words” sound similar without a true rhyme; also dubbed half-rhymes or off-rhymes (goat/slow)

Question 22

sight rhyme

Answer 22

two words end with the same spelling but different sounds

Question 23

alliteration

Answer 23

the repetition of a consonant sound: Billy Bob burnt Busy Bills bumblebee;

Question 24

assonance

Answer 24

the repetition of a vowel sound: Billy wins his millions limping,

Question 25

anaphora

Answer 25

the repetition of the same word at the beginning of several lines

Question 26

epistrophe

Answer 26

the repetition of the same word at the end of successive lines

Question 27

three lines

Answer 27

tercet

Question 28

four lines

Answer 28

quatrain

Question 29

five lines

Answer 29

quintet

Question 30

six lines

Answer 30

sestet

Question 31

7 lines

Answer 31

septet

Question 32

8 lines

Answer 32

octet

Question 33

ballad quatrain

Answer 33

four-line stanza written in iambic tetrameter or alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter

Question 34

mimesis

Answer 34

imitation of the ancient world; of nature; criterion of good art in romanticism, because it views these things in terms of messages that contain themselves (porteuse de sa propre pensée)

Question 35

imagination

Answer 35

truly visionary, allowing artist to grasp higher forms of truth, which are inaccessible by scientific reason; does not nec. exclude the latter, nor does it require renouncing objectivity; romantics saw it as a shaping power, bc art doesn’t resurrect/recreate/reproduce– it is a source

unlike fancy, because fancy is a daydream/reverie–

Question 36

occasional verse

Answer 36

Occasioned, having not a private but a public or social occasion. From Pindar’s Odes to Walt Whitman’s “When the Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” poets have found public occasions for writing, inc. memorial pieces, odes, tributes, epithalamia, funeral elegies, sonnets or odes memorializing a state occasion or historic event