Poetry Terms Flashcards

266898835	blank verse	metrically traditional, but without rhyme	0
266898836	confessional poetry	school of poetry where poet may expose personal, taboo, or secret things about himself	1
266898837	couplet	two line stanza, or the same rhyme pattern in two conjoined lines	2
266898838	dramatic monologue	poem that dramatizes someone's thoughts and actions	3
266898839	end rhyme	rhymed sound at end of line	4
266898840	end stop	line ends with period or feeling of period	5
266898841	foot	group of 2 or 3 stressed and unstressed syllables	6
266898842	formalism	following traditional, given poetic forms such as sonnets, villanelles	7
266898843	free verse	without rhyme or structured metrical pattern	8
266898844	iamb	foot with an unaccented syllable and accented syllable	9
266915363	internal rhyme	rhymed sound before end of line	10
266915367	meter	use of patterns of stressed and unstressed rhythms (beats) in a poetic line	11
266915369	movement	the way lines flow together, speak to or against each other, and pull us forward in a poem	12
266915371	ode	poem that commemorates or celebrates, written for an occasion	13
266915373	pentameter	line with 5 feet, iambic pentameter therefore has 10 syllables	14
266915375	refrain	repeating line/verse in poem or song	15
266915377	rhyme scheme	repeated pattern of end rhymes, usually marked with letters of the alphabet	16
266915379	scansion	scanning the rhythm of a line by locating patterns of feet with stressed and unstressed syllables	17
266915381	sestet	six line stanza	18
266915383	slant rhyme	substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme	19
266915385	sonnet	14 line poem	20
266915387	stanza	grouping of lines in a poem (like paragraph)	21
266915389	tension	sense of conflict	22
266915391	true rhyme	last syllable rhyme sounds exactly the same	23
266915393	typographical rhythms	the way white space in front of, in middle of, or after lines creates rhythmic pauses and variations in meaning and emphasis	24
266915395	villanelle	19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines in according to set pattern	25
266915397	dipody	group of 2 feet, especially, in accentual verse, in which one of the two accented syllables bears primary stress and the other bears secondary stress	26
266915399	quatrain	stanza of four lines	27
266915401	octave	stanza of eight lines	28
266915403	terecet	group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines	29
266935927	enjambment	running on the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to next without a syntactical break	30
266935928	dactyl	foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter	31
266935929	trochee	foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or stressed followed by unstressed	32
266935930	tetrameter	line consisting of four dipodies in trochaic, iambic, or anapestic meter	33
266935931	anapestic	foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter...	34
266935932	lyric poetry	having from and musical quality of a song	35
266935933	sesitna	poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of first stanza, but in different order	36
266935934	ballad	simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing	37
266935935	envoy	short stanza concluding a poem in certain archaic metrical forms	38
266935936	interno	place of fiery heat and destruction	39
266935937	canto	chapter in epic poem	40
266935938	epic	long narrative story about journey of a hero	41
266935939	allegory	story that is read on both literal and symbolic level	42
266935940	sloth	laziness	43
266935941	wrath	anger	44
266935942	gluttony	excess	45
266935943	pride	high opinion of one's own, importance or superiority	46
266935944	lust	passionate desire or craving	47
266935945	avarice	greed	48
266935946	malice	spite	49
266935947	fraud	deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain	50
266935948	incontinence	inability to control yourself	51
266935949	miser	stingy cheap person	52
266935950	tremulous	trembling, fearful	53
266935951	bliss	supreme happiness	54
266935952	opportunist	person who makes decisions to benefit himself regardless of sacrifice or ethical principles	55
266935953	putrid	rotten or decayed	56
266935954	woe	distress	57
266935955	omnipotence	quality of being all powerful	58
266935956	forsaken	abandoned	59
266946074	primordial	from the very beginning	60
266946075	lamentation	expression of grief	61
266946076	swoon	to faint	62
266946077	retrograde	moving backwards	63
266946078	goaded	to prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick	64
266946079	carnal	relating to physical and especially sexual appetites	65
266946080	debauchery	extreme indulgence in sensual pleasures	66
266946081	depravity	moral corruption or degradation	67
266946082	blaspheme	to speak disrespectfully of God	68
266946083	tempest	storm	69
266946084	pilgrimage	journey taken for religious reasons	70
266946085	dalliance	flirtation	71
266946086	incessant	nonstop	72
266946087	wallow	to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust	73
266946088	offal	garbage	74
266946089	fetid	stinking	75
266946090	festered	decayed, rot	76
266946091	omniscience	all knowing	77
266946092	encumbered	to put a heavy load on, burden	78
266946093	fruitless	useless, unproductive	79
266946094	sordid	dirty and foul	80
266946095	entombed	placed in tomb or grave	81
266946096	vanity	excessive pride in appearance	82
266946097	malignant	inclined to do evil	83
266946098	chasm	deep hole in earth's surface	84
266946099	blithely	happily	85
266946100	insolence	being rude, disrespectul	86
266946101	haughty	snobbish	87
266946102	jostle	to bump, push, shove rudely	88
266946103	vexation	irritant	89
266946104	desolation	dreariness	90
266946105	heretic	person who holds controversial opinions	91
266946106	acrid	bitter	92
266946107	sepulcher	burial place	93
266946108	bier	stand on which coffin is placed	94
267041996	cupidity	excessive desire for wealth	95
267041997	sublime	elevated or lofty in thought, languagr	96
267041998	prostrate	to cast oneself face down on the ground in humility	97
267041999	panderer	sexual procurer	98
267042000	strumpet	prostitute	99
267042001	portal	door, gate, entrance	100
267042002	miscreant	villian	101
267042003	censure	expression of disapproval	102
267042004	infamy	bad reputation	103
267042005	dexterously	skillful in use of hands	104
267042006	augment	enlarge or increase	105
267042007	benevolent	kind, generous, charitable	106
267042008	deride	treat as inferior and unworthy of respect	107
267042009	discord	conflict or disagreement	108
267042010	disdain	lack of respect- often suggesting distaste	109
267042011	erudite	having or showing deep scholarly knowledge	110
267042012	fastidious	giving careful attention to detail	111
267042013	fetter	to restrain or hinder, shackle for ankles	112
267042014	guile	cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful	113
267042015	malicious	wanting to see others suffer or threatening evil	114
267042016	mitigate	to make less harmful or unpleasant	115
267042017	obscure	not known to many people	116
267042018	pious	behaving in a highly moral or religious manner	117
267042019	prudent	sensible and careful	118
267042020	tenacious	persistent and unyielding	119
267042021	venerate	regard with feelings of respect and reverence	120
267042022	zeal	active interest and enthusiasm	121