4935713191 | meter | A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 0 | |
4935713192 | scansion | the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm | 1 | |
4935713193 | dimeter | 2 feet per line | 2 | |
4935713194 | trimeter | 3 feet per line | 3 | |
4935713195 | pentameter | 5 feet per line | 4 | |
4935713196 | hexameter | 6 feet per line | 5 | |
4935713197 | tetrameter | 4 feet per line | 6 | |
4935713198 | septameter | 7 feet per line | 7 | |
4935713199 | octameter | 8 feet per line | 8 | |
4935713200 | anapest | unstressed, unstressed, stressed | 9 | |
4935713201 | dactyl | stressed, unstressed, unstressed | 10 | |
4935713202 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 11 | |
4935713203 | end stop | When a line break occurs at the end of a sentence | 12 | |
4935713204 | iamb | unstressed, stressed | 13 | |
4935713205 | trochee | stressed, unstressed | 14 | |
4935713206 | spondee | stressed, stressed | 15 | |
4935713207 | prosody | the study of meter | 16 | |
4935713208 | foot | one unit of poetic meter | 17 | |
4935713209 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 18 | |
4935713210 | masculine/feminine endings | ends on stressed/unstressed | 19 | |
4935713211 | enjambment | no punctuation at the end of the line | 20 | |
4935713212 | ballad meter | alternates iambic tetrameter and trimeter | 21 | |
4935713213 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or regular meter | 22 | |
4935713214 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 23 | |
4935713215 | fixed form | Pattern of rhyme in a stanza | 24 | |
4935713216 | couplet | A pair of rhymed lines | 25 | |
4935713217 | heroic couplet | two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter | 26 | |
4935713218 | tercet | 4 line stanza? | 27 | |
4935713219 | triplet | ? | 28 | |
4935713220 | terza rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc | 29 | |
4935713221 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 30 | |
4935713222 | ballad stanza | ? | 31 | |
4935713223 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 32 | |
4935713224 | octave | 8 line stanza | 33 | |
4935713225 | sonnet in general | big topics like love, death, God, set up situation/question, answer or commentary | 34 | |
4935713226 | italian petrarchan sonnet | octave and sestet | 35 | |
4935713227 | english shakespearian sonnet | 3 quatrains and couplet | 36 | |
4935713228 | haiku | 5, 7, 5 | 37 | |
4935713229 | picture poem | a type of open poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem to create a shape or picture on the page. | 38 |
AP Literature Meter and Structure of Poetry Flashcards
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