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| 8256655840 | ballad | this is a narrative poem describing a past happening that is sometimes romantic but always ends catastrophically. The saga described is usually in an impersonal voice with the speaker some distance from the action. Ordinarily a ballad is written in quatrains with four accented syllables in the first and third lines and three accented syllables in the second and fourth lines; the shorter lines usually rhyme | 0 | |
| 8256655842 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter; metrical verse with no ending rhyme (Shakespeare) | 1 | |
| 8256655843 | cacophony | a combination of harsh, unpleasant sounds which create an effect of discordance. Its opposite is euphony. | 2 | |
| 8256655844 | caesura | a pause for effect in the middle of a line of poetry; (period, dash, semicolon, etc.) it may or may not affect the meter. In scansion, a caesura is usually indicated by the following symbol (//). | 3 | |
| 8256655861 | enjambment | line of verse that carries over into next line without a pause of any kind | 4 | |
| 8256655866 | euphony | a quality of style marked by pleasing, harmonious sounds, the opposite of cacophony | 5 | |
| 8256655868 | eye rhyme | a form of rhyme wherein the look rather than the sound is important. Ex: "Cough" and "tough" do not sound enough alike to constitute a rhyme. However, if these two words appeared at the ends of successive lines of poetry, they would be considered eye rhyme. | 6 | |
| 8256655873 | foot | a unit of meter; a metrical foot can have two or three syllables; the basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry. A foot is the smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line. A line of meter is described by the kind of meter and the number of feet. | 7 | |
| 8256655874 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable. | 8 | |
| 8256655875 | trochee | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (bar-ter). | 9 | |
| 8256655876 | anapest | a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (un-der-stand). | 10 | |
| 8256655877 | dactyl | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (mer-ri-ly) | 11 | |
| 8256655878 | pyrrhic | a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables | 12 | |
| 8256655879 | spondee | a metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented ( true-blue) | 13 | |
| 8256655885 | iambic pentameter | a metrical pattern in poetry which consists of five iambic feet per line. | 14 | |
| 8256655897 | kenning | a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, Ex: oar-steed = ship | 15 | |
| 8256655901 | meter | the rhythmical pattern of a poem; classified according both to its pattern and the number of feet to the line. Meter is a patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Below is a list of classifications: | 16 | |
| 8256655902 | monometer | one foot to a line | 17 | |
| 8256655903 | dimeter | two feet | 18 | |
| 8256655904 | trimeter | three feet | 19 | |
| 8256655905 | tetrameter | four feet | 20 | |
| 8256655906 | pentameter | five feet to a line. | 21 | |
| 8256655917 | ode | a long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme; a form of lyric poetry using elaborate, sophisticated vocabulary in iambic pentameter. It usually focuses upon a single object or person. Ex: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" - the poet is talking to a piece of pottery in a museum (apostrophe) | 22 | |
| 8256655932 | refrain | a phrase or line, usually pertinent to the central topic, which is repeated at regular intervals throughout a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 23 | |
| 8256655934 | rhyme | similarity or likeness of sound; may be internal (within a segment of writing) or at the ends of lines of verse in poetry | 24 | |
| 8256655935 | double rhyme | A rhyme in which the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of the words involved (politely-rightly-sprightly); one form of feminine rhyme | 25 | |
| 8256655936 | end rhyme | Rhymes are end-rhymed when both rhyming words are at the end of the lines | 26 | |
| 8256655937 | feminine rhyme | rhymes are feminine when the sounds involve more than one syllable (turtle-fertile, spitefully-delightfully). A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved (ceiling-appealing or hurrying-scurrying) | 27 | |
| 8256655938 | identical rhyme | If the preceding consonant sound is the same (for example, manse-romance, style-stile), or if there is no preceding consonant sound in either word (for example, aisle-isle, alter-altar), or if the same word is repeated in the rhyming position (for example, hill-hill) | 28 | |
| 8256655939 | internal rhyme | an internal rhyme occurs when one or both rhyming words are within the line | 29 | |
| 8256655940 | masculine (or single) rhyme | rhymes are masculine when the sounds involve only one syllable (decks-sex or support-retort). A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved (dance-pants, scald-recalled) | 30 | |
| 8256655941 | triple rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the third last syllable of the words involved (gainfully-disdainfully) | 31 | |
| 8256655942 | rhythm | the metrical or rhythmical pattern in a poem | 32 | |
| 8256655948 | sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes | 33 | |
| 8256655949 | English, or Shakespearean sonnet | divided into three quatrains (four line groupings) and a final couplet (14 lines). The rhyme scheme is. The meter is iambic pentameter, with a set rhyme scheme-- abab cdcd efef gg. The change of rhyme in the English sonnet is coincidental with a change of theme in the poem. The structure of the English sonnet explores variations on a theme in the first three quatrains and concludes with an epigrammatic couplet. | 34 | |
| 8256655950 | Spenserian sonnet | a nine line stanza, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter | 35 | |
| 8256655951 | stanza | a related group of lines in a poem, equivalent to a paragraph in prose | 36 | |
| 8256655956 | stress | saying certain syllables or words in a line with more emphasis or volume | 37 |
