Quiz LIT

Quatrain

A four line stanza

Tercet

A group of three lines of verse, also called triplet

Tetrameter

A line of verse with three feet

Spondee

A metrical foot containing two stressed syllables

Trochee

A metrical foot of two syllables, stressed, unstressed

Caesura

A pause within a line of verse

Sonnet

A poem of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter (Petrarchan or Shakespearean)

Dactyl

A poetic foot of three syllables, stress, unstressed, unstressed

Anapest

A poetic foot of three syllables, unstressed, unstressed, stressed

Ballad

A popular narrative poem originally composed to be sung

Figurative Language

Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally

Free Verse

Poetry whose form is not structured by rules of meter, rhyme or stanza length

Understatement

Saying less than one means or saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants

Imagery

The representation through language of sense experience; a mental picture, something seen in the mind's eye; "a picture made out of words"

Blank Verse

Verse that has meter but no rhyme

Syntax

Word order and sentence structure