Prosody

Question 1

The recurrence of stress & emphasis @ irregular intervals, affording a pleasurable rise & fall. Never falls in a regular pattern.

Answer 1

Prose Rhythm

Question 2

7 line stanza ( a form of - is Rhyme Royal).

Answer 2

Septet

Question 3

A system for describing conventional rhythms by dividing lines into feet, indicating the locations of accents, & counting the syllables. The meter, once the -ing has been performed, is named according to the # of feet in a line ( monometer, dimeter, etc.). Main feet: iamb (U/), trochee (/U), anapest (UU/), dactyl (/UU), spondee (//), phyric (UU).

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Scansion

Question 4

In prosody- the emphasis given to a syllable in articulation. In versification- usually implies contrast, accented & unaccented syllables.

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Accent

Question 5

Incompleteness of the last foot of a line. Truncation by omission of 1 or 2 final syllables. The opposite of anacrusis.

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Catalexis

Question 6

A slanting or upright line used in prosody to mark off feet, as in the following:
The sun | is warm | the sky | is clear.
The waves | are dan | cing fast | & bright.

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Virgule

Question 7

UU- unstressed, unstressed.

Answer 7

Phyrrhic

Question 8

Extra metrical unstressed syllable added to the end of a line of iambic ( U/+U) or anapestic (UU/+U) rhythm.

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Feminine Ending

Question 9

The unit of rhythm in a verse.

Answer 9

Foot

Question 10

Line of verse that ends on a stressed syllable as does any regular iambic line.

Answer 10

Masculine Ending

Question 11

Recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern.

Ex: monometer (1), dimeter (2), etc.

Answer 11

Meter

Question 12

“Variable form”- applied to rare verse forms that pressures rhythm, meter, & stanza, but varies rhyme scheme from stanza to stanza.
Ex: W.H. Austen’s “Leap Before You Look” rhymes-abab bbaa baba abba aabb baba-, in effect turning itself inside out.

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Poikilomorphism

Question 13

A musical term for the effect produced by a temporary displacing or shifting of the regular beat.

Answer 13

Syncopation

Question 14

U/- unstressed, stressed.

Answer 14

Iamb

Question 15

A couplet- any 2 consecutive lines of similar form. An epigram or maxim completely expressed in couplet form.

Answer 15

Distich

Question 16

//- stressed, stressed.
Ex: football
/ /

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Spondee

Question 17

The placement of a pause or caesura in the syllabilic middle of a line of verse. In line w/ an even # of feet & of syllables, a -ing caesura has the effect of stability, Asian Thomas Harely’s “& consummation comes, & jarster homispheres.”

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Balance

Question 18

A cutting short of words through the omission of a letter or a syllable. Usually confined to omission of vowels inside a word.
Ex: Ev’ry for every is - often used in verse where a desired meter is sought.

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Syncope

Question 19

The name of the symbol (U) used to indicate a short syllable in scansion & an unstressed syllable.

Answer 19

Breve

Question 20

A poetic foot in which the 1st syllable is accented, as in a trochee (/U) or dactyl (/UU).

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Falling Rhythm

Question 21

A meterical system employed by poets before 1100. Consists of = #s of accented syllables per line & a varying # of unaccented syllables. - - - line had 2 hemistich ( half lines ) having 2 accented syllables each & separated by a caesura & contain alliteration. In modern times, W.H. Auden used this system in his long poem The Age of Anxiety.
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Old English Versification

Question 22

Opposite of anapest, (/UU)- stressed, unstressed, unstressed.
Ex: merrily
/ U U

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Dactyl

Question 23

UU/- unstressed, unstressed, stressed.

Answer 23

Anapest

Question 24

Metrically complete. Applied to lines that carry out the basic metrical & rhythmic pattern of a poem.

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Acatalectic

Question 25

Lacking a syllable in the middle & @ the end. This happens commonly in the 3rd & 6th feet of the 2nd line of the elegiac couplet in classical languages.

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Dicatalectic

Question 26

Stress that falls on a syllable. It does NOT refer to the stressed syllable, but the stress itself (/).

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Ictus

Question 27

Group of 8 lines of verse.

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Octet

Question 28

Stanza appearing @ the close of certain kinds of stanzas. @ times it serves as a summary or conclusion. Sometimes functions as a " sending " or " dispatching " poem ( talking w/ common diplomatic meaning of - as " one who is sent."

Answer 28

Envoy (envoi)

Question 29

A 3-line stanza which rhymes -Ana bcb cdc ded- & so forth ( an interlocking rhyme scheme). A set of such stanzas can close w/ some variation such as a couplet to close the loose ends of the rhymes. Usually written in iambic pentameter (U/). It is a form popular w/ W.H. Auden.

Answer 29

Terza Rima

Question 30

A stanza of 8 iambic pentameter lines rhyming -abab abcc-. Boccaccio is credited w/ originating it. Some English poets who used it are Wyatt, Spenser, Mitton, Keats, Byron, Longfellow, Browning & Yeats.

Answer 30

Ottava Rima

Question 31

A stanza of 5 lines.

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Quintain (quintet)

Question 32

The recurrence of certain sounds & kinds of sounds. In poetry, 3 different elements may function in a pattern of regular occurrence: quantity, accent, & # of syllables. In English poetry, the -ic pattern is most often established by a combination of accent & # of syllables. - can be rising as in iamb & anapest or falling as in trochee & dactyl.

Answer 32

Rhythm

Question 33

Foot w/ 3 syllables ( //U). Opposite of anapest.

Answer 33

Anti Bacchius

Question 34

The study of the patterns of rhythm in poetry.

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Metrics

Question 35

Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs.

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Heroic Couplet

Question 36

A break or pause in a line verse. In Classical literature, it divided a foot between 2 words, usually near the middle of the line. Ex: " To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell: Had we but world enough, || & time This coyness lady, || were no crime. We would sit down, || & think which way. To walk || & pass our long lores day. If the - comes after an unstressed syllable l, it is called feminine -.

Answer 36

Caesura (cesura)

Question 37

A pause or break between 2 vowel sounds not separated by a consonant. Opposite of elision. Occurs only in a break between 2 words when the final vowel of the 1st & the initial vowel of the 2nd are each sounded. In logic - signifies the omission of 1 of the logical steps in a process of reasoning. Ex: Montana "pause" Atlanta.

Answer 37

Hiatus

Question 38

A stanza widely used for hymns, consisting of 4 lines rhyming either -abab- or -abcb- & usually having the 1st, 2nd, & 4th lines in iambic trimeter & the 3rd in iambic tetrameter. Ex: The hymn "Blessed Be the Tis That Binds" is in - -. Also, Thomas Hardy used it in "I Look into My Glass" & "The Man He Killed" & Emily Dickinson used it in such poems as "The Bustle in a House" & "There's a Certain Slant of Light".

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Short Measure

Question 39

/U- stressed, unstressed.

Answer 39

Trochee

Question 40

In metrics, the omission of a syllable or syllables @ the beginning or ending of a line.

Answer 40

Truncation

Question 41

Used in prosody for rhyming syllables that bear significantly different levels of accent, as in the rhyme of "appear" & "reindeer" in Clement Morre's "A Visit From Saint Nicholas."

Answer 41

Anisobaric