Terms : Hide Images
| 5732531636 | Verse | a literary for that employs a marked rhythm, usually employs rhyme, usually uses a fixed stanza pattern and sometimes employ a figure of speech. | 0 | |
| 5732540868 | Meter | is to poetry what the beat or time signature is to music. a systematic arrangement of heavily stressed or accented and lightly stressed or unaccented syllables | 1 | |
| 5732549346 | Poetic Foot | A combination of one accented syllable with one or more unaccented syllables | 2 | |
| 5732553294 | Iambic | a poetic foot. where one unaccented syllable is followed by an accented. ( /- strong weak) | 3 | |
| 5732557508 | Trochaic | a poetic foot. that is reverse of iambic ( -/, weak strong) | 4 | |
| 5732561227 | Anapestic | a poetic foot. accented following two unaccented syllables (--/, weak, weak strong) (introduce) | 5 | |
| 5732601972 | Dactylic | poetic foot. Reverse of anapestic ( /--, strong, weak, weak) (tenderly) | 6 | |
| 5732606030 | Amphibraic | poetic foot. one accented syllable between two unaccented (-/- , weak strong weak) | 7 | |
| 5732622449 | line | a line of poetry is named according to the number of poetic feet in the line | 8 | |
| 5732626517 | Monometer | one line or foot (-/) | 9 | |
| 5732627562 | Dimeter | two feet | 10 | |
| 5732630147 | Trimeter | Three feet | 11 | |
| 5732630955 | Tetrameter | four feet | 12 | |
| 5732631609 | Pentameter | five feet | 13 | |
| 5732633468 | Hexameter | six feet | 14 | |
| 5732635263 | Heptameter | seven feet | 15 | |
| 5732636021 | Octameter | eight feet | 16 | |
| 5732637125 | Scansion | a term used when we look at the line of poetry in order to establish it's full name (ex: iambic pentameter, anapestic tetrameter, dactylic trimeter, trochaic trimeter, etc.) | 17 | |
| 5732659498 | Spondee | Two stressed syllables are placed next to each other to cause jarring or stopping of the rhythmic flow of a line. usually, results in the emphasis on the words where the spondee rests | 18 | |
| 5732682787 | Rhyme | the exact or close similarity in sound between words - to tie lines together by the repetition of similar sounds | 19 | |
| 5732688730 | End Rhyme | the words at the ends of the lines of poetry are made to sound the same intentionally | 20 | |
| 5732691798 | Masculine | type of end rhyme that ends in a stressed syllable | 21 | |
| 5732692866 | Feminine | type of end rhyme where the last syllable is unnacented | 22 | |
| 5732694972 | Triple | type of end rhyme that usually is used for comic relief | 23 | |
| 5732699881 | Assonance | a Half rhyme where the vowel sound of two words is matched without any regard for the consonants | 24 | |
| 5732703351 | Consonance | a half rhyme where the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that precede them differ | 25 | |
| 5732707167 | Internal Rhyme | a word in the middle of the line is made to rhyme with a word at the end of the same line, or several words within the line are rhymed | 26 | |
| 5732712702 | Refrain | the repeating of words or groups of words within or the end of a stanza. tends to produce a lingering effect on the memory thus serves to emphasize | 27 | |
| 5732718050 | Blank Verse | A pattern of poetry that employs iambic pentameter lines but no rhyme. Has rhythm but no rhyme | 28 | |
| 5732728083 | Free Verse | this pattern is bound to no fixed rhyme scheme and the rhythm varies constantly. some of them almost looks like a prose | 29 | |
| 5732737735 | Quatrain | this pattern is common in lyrics and narrative poetry. it employs for lines tied together by rhyme, this form is used to express emotion in a simple manner or to tell a story ( ABCD, ABBA, ABAB, ABCA) | 30 | |
| 5732748789 | Triplet | three lines have been linked together with rhyme | 31 | |
| 5732751475 | Couplet | consists of two lines usually of the same length tied together by rhyme | 32 | |
| 5732754810 | open couplet | a thought hasn't been completed | 33 | |
| 5732755620 | closed couplet | thought is complete | 34 | |
| 5732756398 | lyric stanza | this pattern very common in lyric poetry. the poet is free to make up any pattern of line he chooses but once a pattern is created he must stick to it through the rest of the stanza. the number of lines if a stanza is to name stanza pattern | 35 | |
| 5732761834 | sonnet | this pattern employs 14 lines of iambic pentameter rhythm tied together with an intricate rhyme scheme | 36 | |
| 5732767087 | Octave | the first 8 lines expresses a problem or a description of some experience, rhyme scheme usually varies but usually is abbaabba | 37 | |
| 5732769310 | setset | the next six lines offer a solution to the problem or the comment on the experience, the pattern usually varies but is mostly cdecde or a combination ccddee | 38 | |
| 5732777140 | shakespearian or elizabethan or english | first 12 lines are often arranged into three quatrains, each of which given some aspect or thought about an experience. usually abab, cdcd, efef | 39 | |
| 5732781688 | Figure of Speech | a word or group of words which in certain ways indicate resemblance or difference usually compares one thing to another to bring out contrast or similarity | 40 | |
| 5732785557 | Simile | the comparison of one object with another something else which is in some way similar | 41 | |
| 5732788305 | Metaphor | one thing is called something else which resembles in some way. does not use connectives | 42 | |
| 5732796762 | Allegory | describing one thing in the likeness of another, it is really an expanded metaphor in story form to teach some truth or to illustrate some thought | 43 | |
| 5732801052 | Personification | Animals, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas are spoken as if they were persons | 44 | |
| 5732803546 | Hyperbole or exageration | a powerful poetic device when used effectively but very flat if used carelessly | 45 | |
| 5732804815 | Apostrophe | Animals, inanimate objects, abstract ideas, absent or dead people are addressed as though present and alive | 46 | |
| 5732811524 | Antithesis or contrast | use of contrast words or ideas so that the difference is startling | 47 | |
| 5732812657 | Irony | the idea in the mind is quite different from or the exact opposite of the statement made, the purpose may be to deride, ridicule or merely achieve humor | 48 | |
| 5732816936 | Metonymy | the use of a word to suggest something always associated with it | 49 | |
| 5732820197 | Images and Symbol | visible signs used by the poets to represent or stand for ideas, abstract qualities or emotions. word pictures | 50 | |
| 5732824679 | Repeated theme | gives the poem unity and emphasis, colors are often used to achieve this theme | 51 | |
| 5732826286 | Allusion | references to some person, please one thing that the after hopes is sufficiently well known to be recognized by the literate person | 52 |
