Skills Test Flashcards
(25 cards)
What is anaphora
Repetition of words or words at the beginning of 2 or more successive verses clauses or sentences
Assonance
The repetition of cowl sounds followed by different consonant s in 3 or more stressed syllables
Ballad
A narrative composed of quatrains
Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Couplet
A pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter
Dramatic monologue
A poem in which a character reveals himself or herself by speaking to a silent listener
Foot
A measured combination of heavy and light stresses
Hyperbole
Deliberate execrations or over statements
Iambic meter
A line of verse with five metrical feet
Imagery
The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures
Meter
A poems rhythmical pattern
Octave
a repeated group of 8 lines that often share pattern of ruthenium and rhyme
Petrarchan sonnet
Consists of an active an sestet
Rhyme
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words
Double rhyme scheme
Rhyming words of two syllables in which the first is accented
Triple rhyme
Rhyming words of three or more syllables in which any syllables but at the last is accented
Eye rhyme
Words that seem to rhyme because they are spelled identically
Slant rhymed
A near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical
Rhyme scheme
The pattern of rhyme usually indicated by assigning a letter of the Alphabet to each rhyme at end
Sestet
Six line sonnet
Soliloquy
A characters personal reflections about their own thought or feelings
Sonnet
A poem written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme
Stanza
A group final bed forming the basic reciting material unit in s poem or a verse
Volta
The turning point a Petrarchan sonnet usually occurring between the octave tabs the sestet
