Poetry Unit - English II - ALL
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jeremy_gentry Plus on March 27, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 austere | forbiddingly stern; ascetic; without comfort or enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented; Ex. a monk's _____ life |
| indifferently | having no particular interest or concern; apathetic: indifferent to the sufferings of others |
| chronic | constant; lasting a long time; inveterate |
| line | word or words in a row of poetry that may or may not make a complete sentence |
| stanza | group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a "paragraph of poetry" |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| quatrain | stanza or group of four lines of poetry |
| sestet | a rhythmic group of six lines of verse |
| octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
| prose | ordinary writing as distinguished from verse |
| enjambment | the continuation of thought or meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next |
| Shakespearean or English sonnet | poem containing three quatrains and a concluding couplet; with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg; written in iambic pentameter (5, two-syllable feet = 10 syllables) |
| submerged | hidden, covered; underwater (can be a noun or verb) |
| bureau | chest of drawers for clothing, etc.; a government department |
| melancholy | sad, gloomy, unhappy; sadness, gloominess |
| grimace | to make a face expressing feelings of pain, disgust, or contempt |
| fissure | narrow, slit-like opening or crack |
| end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
| reaper | a person or machine that cuts grain for harvesting |
| scythe | a long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc. |
| hone | (N.) a whetstone made of fine gritstone. (V.) to sharpen; make more effective |
| meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables ("beats") that give a line of poetry a predictable rhythm -- it's how we "measure" poetry |
| rhythm | this gives poetry a musical quality, adds emphasis to certain words, and helps reinforce meaning. |
| foot | the basic unit of meter (like a "measure" in music) containing at one or more stressed syllables and/or one or more unstressed syllables |
| iamb | a metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word "protect" (pro-TECT) |
| pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet |
| iambic pentameter | ten-syllable line in which every second syllable is stressed ("so long lives this and this gives life to thee") |
| ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean sonnet |
| temperate | calm and free from extremes of temperature |
| complexion | the appearance and condition of the skin of the face |
| free verse | poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme |
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