Week 2

Question 1

Meter

Answer 1

measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry

Question 2

Verse

Answer 2

metrical language (writing using a meter); opposition of prose

Question 3

Foot

Answer 3

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

Question 4

End-stopped line

Answer 4

A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation

Question 5

Run-on line (Enjambment)

Answer 5

A line that has no natural speech pause at its end, allows the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line.

Question 6

Stanza

Answer 6

A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually rhyme scheme) is repeated throughout the poem

Question 7

Couplet

Answer 7

Two successive lines, usually of the same meter, linked by rhyme

Question 8

Structure

Answer 8

The internal organization of a poem’s content

Question 9

Form

Answer 9

The external pattern or shape of the poem, describable without reference to its content

Question 10

Prose

Answer 10

The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure; not poetry