Unit 7 Flashcards
Words that appeal to one or more of the five senses
Concrete language
Is artfully compressed thought resulting in the elevated expression of ideas
Poetry
The meaning of a word plus all of its implications and emotional associations
Connotative language
A regular pace or beat
Rhythms
Divisions in poetry based on thought, meter, or rhyme and recognized by number of lines they contain.
Stanza
A brief poem expressing the personal view of a single speaker on a particular topic
Lyric poem
A composition written in meter
Verse
Verse having end rhyme and regular meter
Rhymed verse
The pattern of rhyme and regular meter
Rhyme scheme
Poetry whose first eight lines can octave,(rhyming ababa) form a distinct unit of thought and whose last six lines ( a sestet, rhyming variously with two or three new rhymes) form another.
Italian sonnet
Unrhymed iambic pentameter free verse-poetry with no set meter or rhyme.
Blank verse
A pair of rhymed lines
Couplet
A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter
Heroic couplet
Poetry whose thought is usually distributed over three quatrains with a concluding couplet, the whole rhyming
English sonnet
A stanza or poem of four lines
Quatrain
