Mid-term Flashcards
(41 cards)
Ballad
a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
Cinquain
any stanza of five lines.
Epic
a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero
Sonnet
14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter
Quatrain
a stanza or poem of four lines
Couplet
A pair of lines that rhyme and are of the same length.
Octave
a group of eight lines of verse, especially the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italian form.
Sestet
the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Elegy, elegiac verse
a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
Turn/Shift
a change in subject or topic.
Mock epic/ Mock-heroic
a long, humorous poem written in mock-heroic style.
Lyric Verse
a type of emotional songlike poetry.
Iambic (unstressed-stressed)
(iambic): an unstressed stressed foot.
Trochaic (stressed-unstressed)
a type of verse that consists of or features trochees. (trochees: a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.)
Falling meter (trochaic)
trochaic that moves or falls from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Foot, Feet
A measured combination of heavy and light stresses.
Line length (meter)
the length of the lines is determined by the form chosen to a significant extent
Dactylic (falling)
A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. (FLUT-ter-ing or BLUE-ber-ry)
Scansion/Scanning
the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.
Stress/Accent
give particular emphasis or importance to (a point, statement, or idea) made in speech or writing:
Blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Free verse
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Internal rhyme
An exact rhyme within a line of poetry: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
