Poetry

Question 1

poetry

Answer 1

a patterned form of verbal or written expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical terms

Question 2

meter

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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry

Question 3

foot

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a unit of meter. a metrical food can have two or three syllables. consists generally of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables

Question 4

metrical lines

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monometer - 1 foot
di - 2
tri - 3
tetra - 4
penta - 5
hexa - 6
hepta - 7
octa - 8

Question 5

rhymed verse

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consists of verse with end rhyme and usually with a regular meter

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blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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free verse

Answer 7

lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme

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rhyme

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similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words.

Question 9

end rhyme

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the similarity occurring at the end of two or more lines of verse

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internal rhyme

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the similarity occurring between two or more words in the same line of verse

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masculine rhyme

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when one syllable of word rhymes with another word

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feminine rhyme (double rhyme)

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when the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word

ex (question & indigestion)

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triple rhyme

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when the last three syllables of a word of line rhyme

Question 14

rhyme scheme

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the pattern or sequence in which the rhyme occurs

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alliteration

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the repetition of the initial sound in two or more words in a line of verse

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onomatopoeia

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the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds

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assonance

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the similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words

ex (lake & fate)

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consonance

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the repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse. similar to alliteration except consonance doesn’t limit the repeated sound to the initial letter of a word

Question 19

refrain

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the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza. the refrain often takes the form of a chorus

Question 20

repetition

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the reiterating of a word or phrase within a poem

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figure of speech

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an expression in which the words are used in nonliteral sense to present a figure, picture, or image

Question 22

stanza

Answer 22

a division of a poem based on thought or form.
are known by the number of lines they contain