Metrical Terms

Question 0

Assonance

Answer 0

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words

Question 2

Ballad meter

Answer 2

A four-line stanza rhymed ABCB in which lines one and three have four feet and lines two and four have three feet

Question 3

Blank verse

Answer 3

Unrhymed iambic parameter

Question 4

Dactyl

Answer 4

A metrical foot of three syllables, including an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables

Question 5

End-stopped

Answer 5

A line with a pause at the end

Question 6

Free verse

Answer 6

Poetry that is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical

Question 7

Heroic couplet

Answer 7

Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed AA, BB, CC, usually containing a complete thought in the two-line unit

Question 8

Hexameter

Answer 8

A line containing six feet

Question 9

Iamb

Answer 9

A two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable

Question 10

Internal rhyme

Answer 10

Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end