Matching Poetry Terms

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meter

stressed and unstressed syllable patterns in a line of poetry

refrain

the author repeats words, phrases, lines, or groups of lines.

anapest

../ which means 2 unstressed and one stressed syllables

iamb

./ which means unstressed, stressed syllables

trochee

/. which means stressed unstressed syllables

Dactyl

/.. which means 1 stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

dimeter

2 feet

trimeter

3 feet

tetrameter

4 feet

pentameter

5 feet

hexameter

6 feet

couplet

Every two lines rhyme and usually have the same meter.

apostrophe

In poetry it is addressing someone who is absent or something inhuman as if it were human

limerick

It has 3 accented syllables in the first, second, and fifth lines, and 2 accented syllables in the third and fourth lines. The 1st, 2nd, and 5th lines rhyme as do the 3rd and 4th lines.

Italian sonnet

It has two stanzas 8 lines and 4 lines with a definite rhyme scheme

ballad

It is made up of 4 lines with a rhyme scheme of either abcb or abab and a rhythmical pattern of four feet in lines one and three feet in lines two and four. Lines 2 and 4 rhyme. Lines 1 and 3 are generally unrhymed

Shakespearean sonnet

Its rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg

Haiku

Japanese poetry about nature with 17 syllables

sonnet

a fixed form of poetry, means little sound or song

allusion

a reference to some other work

rhyme

a word that agrees with another sound

symbol

an image that stands for more than it indicates literally

metaphor

comparing two unlike things where one thing becomes the other

stanza

connected thoughts set off by spaces, like paragraphs to prose

personification

giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

scansion

identifying and naming the number of feet in a line of poetry

imagery

impressions brought to us by one or more of our senses

monometer

one foot

Cinquain

poem with 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllables

free verse

poetry that is free from limitations of regular rhyme, rhythm or meter

alliteration

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

connotation

suggestions words accumulate in addition to their dictionary meanings

foot

the basic metrical unit, consisting of one accented syllable plus one or more unaccented syllables

denotation

the dictionary definition of a word

rhyme scheme

the letter assigned to the rhyme sounds at the end of lines

figurative language

the meaning is different from the literal interpretation

consonance

the repetition of consonant sounds inside of words

assonance

the repetition of vowel sounds inside of words

blank verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

simile

using like or as to compare two unlike things

form

various sets of rules followed by poems of certain types

onomatopoeia

verbal mimicries of sounds

rhythm

when any pattern repeats itself in verse regularly


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