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Poetry terms_
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pros | regular writing |
| line length 1 | monometer |
| line length 2 | dimeter |
| line length 3 | trimeter |
| line length 4 | tetrameter |
| line length 5 | pentameter |
| line length 6 | hexameter |
| line length 7 | heptameter |
| line length 8 | octameter |
| line length 9 | nonameter |
| line length 10 | decameter |
| line groupings 2 | couplet |
| line groupings 3 | tercet |
| line groupings 4 | quatrain |
| line groupings 6 | sestet (sextet) |
| line groupings 8 | octect (octave) |
| caesura | break or midline pause in a line shown by punctuation. looks like || |
| scansion | meter of poem |
| variation | must occur at beginning or end |
| Elizabethan or Shakespearian or English Sonnet | 14 lines long, 3 quatrains, 1 heroic couplet, ababcdcdefefgg, iambic pentameter |
| Petrarchan or Italian sonnet | 14 lines long, 1 octet, 1 sestet, abba abba (cde,cde or cdd,dee, or cdd,cde, cdc, ded) POINT COUNTERPOINT. |
| sonnet | 14 lines usually about love, english or italian |
| 1st foot | initial foot |
| middle | medial |
| last foot | terminal |
| iambic pentameter | common rhythm in english poetry, with 5 iambs in each line |
| heroic couplet | verse consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter, usually summarizes the stanza |
| perfect rhyme | last vowel sound and last consonant are same. heer steer |
| half/slant/near/imperfect/off/approximate rhyme | half rhymes, grace, ways |
| eye rhyme | looks like it rhymes but doesn't, cough through |
| terzarima | interlocking rhyme scheme tercets. aba bcb cdc ded |
| ballad stanza | a quatrain of alternating iambic pentameter and iambic trimeter 8,6,8,6 |
| alliteration | the close repetition of initial consonant sounds or consonant sounds repeated within themselves, the bouncing baby boy |
| assonance | close repetition of middle vowel sounds between different consonant sounds. moon jude |
| consonance | close repetition of initial and ending consonant sounds with different vowel sounds in between. leave love, shirt short |
| imagery by sight | visual imagery |
| imagery by touch | tactile |
| imagery by smell | olefactory |
| imagery by hearing | auditory |
| imagery by taste | dustatory |
| lyric poem | short poem that expresses the authors feelings |
| apostrophe | an appeal or plead to an unseen entity |
| extended metaphor | a metaphor carried on through many lines or the whole duration of a poem |
| meter | rhythm + line length |
| iamb | [u/] |
| trochee | [/u] |
| spondee | [//] |
| anapest | [uu/] |
| dactyl | [/uu] |
| bildungzoman | coming to age story |
| monologue | speech by one person, drama |
| dialogue | conversation between 2 or more people |
| soliloquy | speech delivered by character alone, talking to oneself provides thoughts |
| connotation | underlying meaning of word |
| denotation | dictionary def of word |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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Chrispy
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