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E4H #26-58 lit.terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story- main purpose is to entertain |
| epic poetry | a long narrative poem about a hero |
| ballad | a type of poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music |
| romance poetry | Poetry with sentiments of emotions, extravagant characters, remote or exotic settings, adventures, magic |
| lyric poetry | a song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings or emotions of a single speaker |
| sonnet | 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| Italian sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns |
| English sonnet | A poem divided into 3 quatrains (4 line groupings) and a final couplet (14 lines) |
| octave | 8 line stanza |
| sestet | 6 line stanza |
| quatrain | 4 line stanza |
| ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. |
| elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead |
| epitaph | a brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone |
| aubade | A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |
| alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds |
| assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds |
| cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds |
| caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry |
| couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. |
| dissonance | a harsh and disagreeable combination, especially of sounds |
| euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound |
| blank verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter |
| free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents |
| meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| rhythm | The metrical or rhythmical pattern in a poem |
| scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm |
| feminine rhyme | a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) |
| masculine rhyme | Single rhyme (masculine rhyme): last syllable only rhymes |
| slant rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme |
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