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Poetry terms
WOD 1 poetry terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sonnet | a 14 line poem |
| couplet | a two line stanza |
| tercet | a three line stanza |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| end-stopped | a line of poetry with punctuation at the end |
| enjambment | a line of poetry without punctuation at the end |
| scansion | the analysis of poems into stanzas, lines, and pauses. includes both rhythm and rhyme |
| meter | organization of rhythms into regular and recurring patterns |
| poetic foot | a metrical unit of rhythm |
| iamb | one poetic foot of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (U/) |
| anapest | poetic foot with 2 unstressed and 1 stressed (UU/) |
| dactyl | poetic foot with 1 stressed 2 unstressed (/UU) |
| trochee | foot with 1 stressed 1 unstressed (/U) |
| spondee | 2 stressed (//) |
| poetic feet | monometer-1 dimeter-2 trimeter-3 tetrameter-4 pentameter-5 hexameter-6 |
| free verse | poetry without a consistent rhyme or rhythm scheme |
| pace | the speed at which verse moves |
| haiku | Japanese fixed form. 3 lines. syllables alternate 5/7/5 |
| acrostic | poetic form organized by initial letter of a key word at the beginning of the lines |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Advocatus Diaboli | devil's lawyer; purposely arguing the wrong side |
| allegory | extended metaphor that veils a moral or political underlying meaning |
| allusion | a reference to something commonly known |
| ambiguity | capacity of words to have 2 simultaneous meanings in the context as a device enriching meaning |
| anachronism | incorrect placement of a person, thing, or event in time |
| analogy | perception of similarity between 2 things |
| anecdote | written or spoken account of a brief, amusing incident that is used to make a point |
| antithesis | contrasting of ideas by balancing words or phrases of opposite meaning |
| aposiopoesis | incomplete utterance caused by emotion or confusion, denoted by ellipsis (...) |
| apostrophe | address to a divinity, object, imaginary, or absent person or an abstract concept |
| archetype | original model used as a recurrent symbol |
| aside | remark spoken by a character in a play that is shared with the audience, but unheard by characters onstage |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in words in close proximity |
| ballad | narrative poem in short, rhymed verses usually telling of love and or travel |
| caesura | deliberate break or pause in a line of poetry signified by punctuation |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter, staple form of Shakespeare's plays |
| the canon | traditional literary works that are found on academic syllabi |
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