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AP Poetry Terms 1
Question | Answer |
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Amphibrach | X/X foot |
Anapest | XX/ foot |
Caesura | A deliberate pause within a line of poetry |
Couplet | Two rhyming lines of poetry, one following another |
Dactyl | /XX foot |
Dimeter | Two-foot line of poetry |
Foot | Basic unit of verse in syllables |
Heptameter | Seven-foot line of poetry |
Hexameter | Six-foot line of poetry |
Iamb | X/ foot |
Monometer | One-foot line of poetry |
Nonameter | Nine-foot line of poetry |
Octameter | Eight-foot line of poetry |
Pentameter | Five-foot line of poetry |
Rhythm | The pattern or flow of sound created in a line of poetry |
Scansion | Process of measuring lines of poetry, with syllables in particular |
Tetrameter | Four-foot line of poetry |
Trimeter | Three-foot line of poetry |
Trochee | /X foot |