Unit 7 Test Flashcards
(40 cards)
Elements of poetry
Imagery, word choices, sounds, and structure
Poetry
Artfully compressed thought resulting in the elevated expression of ideas
Words that appeal to one or more of the five senses
Concrete language
The meaning of a word plus all of its implications and emotional associations
Connotative language
A regular pace or beat
Rhythm
Divisions in poetry based on thought, meter, or rhyme and recognized by the number of lines they contain.
Stanza
A brief poem expressing the personal views 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 a regular meter
Rhyme scheme
Poetry whose first eight lines can octave, rhyming (abbaabba) form a distinct unit of thought and whose last six lines (a sestet, rhyming variously w/ two or three new rhymes) form another
Italian sonnet
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Free 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
Abab cdcd efef gg
English sonnet
A stanza or poem of four lines
Quatrain
A stanza of 3 lines that usually share the same rhyme (also known as tercet)
Triplet
A stanza of 6 lines
Sestet
A stanza of 8 lines
Octave
How does poetry differ from prose?
Imagery may appear in poems in
Concrete language
Allusions
Imaginative comparasons
The sounds of a poem can do what?
The most structural division of poetry is
The line
