Poetry Flashcards
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Rising Meter
A metrical foot that moves from unstressed to stressed sounds, such as iambic foot and anapestic foot.
Falling Meter
A metrical foot that moves from stressed to unstressed such as trochaic foot and dactylic foot.
Iambic Pentameter
A metrical pattern in poetry that consists of five iambic feet per line (consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable).
Spondee
A foot consisting of two stressed syllables (“dead set”). It is used mainly for variety or emphasis.
Foot
The metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.
Trochaic
a type of verse that consists of or features trochees.
Anopestic
a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.
Consonance
A common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds: worth, breath.
Euphony
Language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear.
Cacophony
Language that is difficult to pronounce.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words.
Eye Rhyme
Words that look alike but do not actually rhyme.
Internal Rhyme
Places at least one of the rhymed words within the line.
Masculine Rhyme
Describes the rhyming words of more single-syllable words, such as grade or shade.
Feminine Rhyme
Consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables. E.g. butter, clutter.
Difference between paradox and oxymoron.
a paradox is the opposition of ideas or themes, an oxymoron is a contradiction merely between words.
Figure of Speech
Say in terms of something else
Apostrophe
An address to who is absent and can’t hear the speaker orto something nonhuman (Shakespear sonnet)
Synecdoche
A metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole. E.g. ten sails
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.
Dialect
a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group (think of people from the South).
Syntax
The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.
