Biesuz Lit Vocab List 3

56584243	Rhythm	the recurrence of stresses and pauses in poetry
56584244	Stress (Accent)	greater force given to one syllable
56584245	Meter	stresses recurring at fixed intervals
56584246	Slack Syllable	Unstressed
56584247	Caesura	light but definite pause within a line
56584248	End-Stopped	punctuation at the end of a line
56584249	Run-On	line with no punctuation at the end
56584250	Prosody	the study of metrical structures in poetry
56584251	Scansion	the act of indicating stresses and pauses within a poem
56584252	iambic foot	u/
56584253	anapestic foot	uu/
56584254	trochaic foot	/u
56584255	dactylic foot	/uu
56584256	Rising Meter	iambic (u/) and anapestic (uu/)
56584257	Falling Meter	dactylic (/uu) and trochaic (/u)
56584258	Monosyllabic foot	/
56584259	Spondee	//
56584260	Various meters	monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter
56584261	Accentual Meter	the poet doens't write in feet, but instead counts accents per line
56584693	Closed Form Poetry	poems that follow a pattern
56584694	Open Form Poetry	poems that don't follow a pattern
56584695	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter
56584696	Couplet	A pair of rhymed lines that contain a complete thought
56584697	Heroic couplet	a couplet written in iambic pentameter
56584698	Parallel	pairs of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in agreement or similarity
56584699	Antithesis	Pairs of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in contrast or opposition
56584700	Tercet	a group of three lines
56584701	Terza rima	a type of poetry with tercets linked together by the rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, efe, etc.
56586466	Quatrain	a stanza consisting of four lines (Considered the building block of poetry.)
56586467	Syllabic verse	poet establishes a pattern of certain number of syllables per line
56586468	Acrostic	a poem in which the initial letter of each line, read downward spells out a word or words
56586469	found poetry	poetry taken from the words "found"
56586470	Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet	abba, abba, (cdcdcd), (cdecde), (cdccdc) - or any other combination that doesn't end in a couplet. A poet will state a problem in the octave and solve it in the sestet
56586471	Shakespearean / English Sonnet	abab, cdcd, efef, gg - a poet will pursue one idea throughout the three quatrains, then end with a surprise in the couplet
56586472	Octave	a group of eight lines
56586473	Sestet	A group of six lines
56586474	Epigram	A short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up.
56586475	Limerick	5 anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba. these are always humorous and sometimes obscene.
56586476	Clerihew	4 lines rhyming aabb. The first line gives the person's name. This is humourous and whimsical and shows the subject from an unusual point of view. Hardly ever abusive or obscene.
56586595	Sestina (song of sixes)	In six, six-line stanzas the poet repeats six end words in a prescribed order, then reintroduces the six repeated words (in any order) in a closing envoy of three lines
56586596	Villanelle	Has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couple are at the close. This is 19 lines long, consisting of 5 tercets and one concluding quatrain.