Poetry vocab Flashcards
(27 cards)
what is an internal rhyme
when 2 words within a single line or when a word within a line rhymes with a word on another line (usually the line immediately following)
what is an end rhyme
rhymed sounds at the end of two or more lines
what is a rhyme scheme
a repeated pattern of end rhymes (identify each rhyming sound with a lower case letter starting from a)
what is assonance
repetition of INTERNAL VOWEL sounds in words in close proximity
what is consonance
repetition of NON-INITIAL CONSONANT sounds in words in close proximity
what are the different types of stanzas
(rhyming) couplet (2 lines),
tercet (3 lines), quatrain (4 lines), sestet (6 lines), octave (8 lines)
what is anaphora
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines or stanzas (Ex. Why […] Why […] But why […])
narrative poem vs. lyric poem
narrative poem = story through the voice of a NARRATOR (action sequence of cause & effect)
lyric poem = feelings, thoughts, and imagination through the voice of a SPEAKER
what is a sonnet
14-line lyric poem, usually in iambic pentameter, which follows one set of several rhyme schemes
what is an Italian/Petrarchan sonnet
14-line lyric poem comprised of an octave and a sestet, most often in the rhyme scheme abbaabba cdecde or abbaabba cdcdcd.
Rhyme scheme of octave is fixed, but more flexibility with the sestet.
NEVER ENDS WITH A COUPLET
what are the individual roles of the octave and the sestet in an Italian/Petrarchan sonnet
octave: presents a problem/question/situation
sestet: resolves what is presented in the octave
what is an English/Shakepearean/Elizabethan sonnet
14-line lyric poem comprised of three quatrains of alternating rhyme and a final rhyming couplet in the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.
quatrains present different approaches to a problem or situation, and final couplet provides solution in pithy, epigrammatic form
what is a volta
sonnet’s turning point in thought and/or emotion (1 or 2 words)
Italian sonnet: usually beginning of sestet
English sonnet: usually beginning of couplet (although flexibility in placement– halfway through line 12 or in final line of couplet)
what is formalism
literary approach that follows traditional forms
neo-formalism
employs traditional forms but with a twist that violates the form
free verse
no standardized rhyme, meter, or structure
stressed and unstressed syllables
stressed: marked by a macron (–)
unstressed: marked by a breve (u)
types of metrical feet
iamb/iambic: u_
trochee/trochaic: _u
spondee/spondaic: _ _
pyrrhic/pyrrhic : uu
scansion
analysis of the type and number of metrical feet in a poem
number of metrical feet
monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter (most common), hexameter, heptameter, octameter
line-break
end of a line
endstop
when line ends with a period or the feeling of a period (causes a pause in reading–punctuation)
what is an enjambment
when a syntactic unit (phrase/clause) is carried over from one line onto the next
what is a caesura
a pause, which may or may not be typographically indicated, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry (marked with //)
