6165787950 | Tercet Stanza | A stanza that consists of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines. | 0 | |
6165787951 | Sestet | A stanza consisting of six lines | 1 | |
6165787952 | Octave | A stanza consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter | 2 | |
6165787953 | Sestina | A poetic form consisting of thirty-six lines in six sestets and a final tercet called the envoi. Don't rhyme each stanza repeats the end words of the lines but in a different order. | 3 | |
6324870297 | Villanelle | A nineteen line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. Five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third rhymes in the first tercet are repeated alternately in the succeeding stanzas. Then the final two lines in the last stanza serve as a refrain. | 4 | |
6325042237 | Broken rhyme | A rhyme where one of the rhyming elements is divided by a break or a pause | 5 | |
6325042238 | Internal rhyme | A rhyme between a word within a rhyme and another at either end of the same line or at the end of another rhyme | 6 | |
6386292592 | Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry. It can occur anywhere within a line and may or may not be punctuated. | 7 | |
6386292593 | Ballad | A ballad is a narrative poem with simple stanzas and simple rhyme scheme that often contains repetitio, dialogue, and a repeated refrain. | 8 | |
6495044804 | End-stopped | A line of poetry that comes to a grammatical conclusion at it's termination. | 9 |
Vocab 12 B Flashcards
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