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Literature
WGU - Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Blank Verse | written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; closest to spoken English (most of Shakespeare's plays were mostly in this verse) |
| Free Verse | no prescribed form; characterized by irregularity in length of lines & lack of a regular pattern & rhyme |
| Lyric | most common; a short poem; usually written in 1st person view; expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene; does not tell a story & often musical |
| Haiku | Japanese poem written in 3 lines; a total of 17 syllables in entire poem |
| Cinquain | a 5 line poem containing 22 syllables |
| Elegy | focuses on the death of a famous person or a close friend |
| Ode | longer & more complicated; serious & elaborate; full of high praise & noble feeling |
| Sonnet | form of 14 lines of iambic pentameter; traditional subjects are love or faith |
| Italian Sonnet | first 8 lines form an octave; rhyme scheme is usually "abbaabba" or "abbacdde"; in 1st part a poet usually develop the subject & builds tension |
| English or Shakespearean Sonnet | rhyme scheme is less flexible (3 quatrains & a couplet or "abab cdcd efef gg" |
| Narrative Poetry | tells a story |
| Epics | long poems; describes deed of heroes in battle or conflicts between human beings & natural & divine forces |
| Ballads | tells shorter stories about a particular person |
| Dramatic Poetry | tells stories; poet lets one or more of the story's characters act out the story |
| End Rhyme | most common; sounds following vowel sound have to be same; near duplication of sounds that take place at the end of lines |
| Eye Rhyme | similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently |
| Slant Rhyme | consonance on the final consonants of the words involved; when final consonant sounds are same but vowel sounds are different; help poet say things in a particular way |
| Stanza | group of lines arranged together; form a division of a poem; usually set off by a space |
| Monostich | one-line poem |
| Couplet | two lines in a poem |
| Triplet | three lines in a poem |
| Quatrain | four lines in a poem |
| Cinquain | five lines in a poem |
| Sestet | six lines in a poem |
| Septet | seven lines in a poem |
| Octave | eight lines in a poem |
| Meter | when stresses recur at fixed intervals |
| Foot | two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem |
| Iambic | consists of 2 syllables, the 1st of which is spoken softer than the 2nd |
| Trochaic | consists of 2 syllables, the 1st of which is spoken louder than the 2nd |
| Anapestic | consists of 3 syllables, the first 2 of which are spoken more softly than the 3rd syllable |
| Dactylic | consists of 3 syllables, the 1st of which is spoken louder than the 2nd & 3rd |
| Monometer | one foot |
| Dimeter | two feet |
| Trimeter | three feet |
| Tetrameter | four feet |
| Pentameter | five feet |
| Hexameter | six feet |
| Heptameter | seven feet |
| Octameter | eight feet |
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