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
