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Durough Final
stuff to help study with on language final
Question | Answer |
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What is Tone? | Tone is a manner, a feeling or atmosphere the author has meant to set in the story, or towards a subject. It can also be considered as the attitude or feeling of the writer towards a subject |
What is Mood? | Mood is the feeling or atmosphere perceived by the reader. It is the emotions you feel while reading. |
What is chronological order? | The order in which something happens |
What is Poetry? | A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas) |
Who is the speaker of a poem? | The speaker of the poem is the “narrator” of the poem |
Who is a poet? | The poet is the author of the poem. |
What is a couplet? | A two line stanza |
What is a triplet? | a three line stanza |
What is a quatrain? | a four line stanza |
What is a quintet? | a five line stanza |
What is a sestet(sixtet)? | a six line stanza |
What is a septet? | a seven line stanza |
What is an octave? | an eight line stanza |
What is rhythm? | The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem |
How is rhythm created? | Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain. |
What is meter? | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
When does meter occur? | Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern. |
How do you write in meter? | When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They they repeat the pattern throughout the poem. |
What is a foot? | A unit of meter. |
What does a foot consist of? | A foot can have two or three syllables. Usually consists of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables. |
What is an iambic foot? | unstressed, stressed |
What is an trochaic foot? | stressed, unstressed |
What is an anapestic foot? | unstressed, unstressed, stressed |
What is an dactylic foot? | stressed, unstressed, unstressed |
What are the different types of feet? | Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic, and Dactylic |
what is a monometer? | one foot on a line |
What is a dimeter? | two feet on a line |
What si a trimeter? | three feet on a line |
What is a tetrameter? | four feet on a line |
What is a pentameter? | five feet on a line |
What is a hexameter? | six feet on a line |
What is a heptameter? | seven feet on a line |
What is a octometer? | eight feet on a line |
What is internal rhyme? | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line. |