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Poetry
Terms for the UNCA Literature and Language Comprehensive Exams
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accent / beat | |
| Accentual-Syllabic Verse | |
| Accentual Verse | |
| Alexandrine | |
| Anapestic | |
| Alliteration | |
| Ballad | |
| Ballad Stanza | |
| Blank Verse | |
| Caesura | |
| Carpe Diem | |
| Confessional Poetry | |
| Dactylic | |
| Dramatic Monologue | |
| Eclogue | |
| Elegy | |
| Enjambment | |
| Epic | |
| Feminine / Double Rhyme | |
| Foot | |
| Free Verse | |
| Heroic Couplet | |
| Hexameter | |
| Iambic | |
| Internal Rhyme | |
| Incremental Repetition | |
| Lyric | |
| Metaphysical Poetry | |
| Meter | |
| Ode (nondramatic) | |
| Pastoral | |
| Pentameter | |
| Quatrain | |
| Refrain | |
| Rhyme | |
| Rhyme Scheme | |
| Rhythm | |
| Slant Rhyme | |
| English Sonnet (v. Italian Forms) | |
| Italian Sonnet (v. English Forms) | |
| Sonnet | |
| Spenserian Stanza | |
| Spondaic | |
| Stanza | |
| Syllabic Verse | |
| Tercet | |
| Terza Rima | |
| Tetrameter | |
| Trochaic | |
| Verse |