Poetry Unit 2 Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 English Quatrain | four line stanzas with lines of iambic pentameter rhyming abab |
| Short Couplets | couplets with a meter of iambic pentameter |
| Ballad Stanza | alternating lines of tentrameter and trimeter in any foot, rhyming abcb or abab |
| Narrative Poetry | poetry whose main function is to tell a story; like fiction, they have a plot, characters, setting, and point-of-view |
| Epic | a long narrative about the exploits of a hero |
| Folk Epics | were originally intended for public recitation and existed in oral form for a long period of time before transcribed; little to nothing is known about their authors |
| Literary Epics | differ from folk epics in that they are products of known authors who wrote their poems for publication |
| Ballads | generally are shorter narratives with song-like qualities that often include rhyme and repeated refrains |
| Folk Ballads | like folk epics, they were originally oral traditions and the authors aren't really known |
| Euphony | a series of pleasant sounds |
| Dithyrambic Poetry | composed to be chanted at religious rituals by a chorus; sometimes described as "dramatic poetry" ; the persona is an invented character, not to be identified with the poetry; presented as a speech or dialogue that might be acted out |
| Archaisms | words that are no longer commonly used |
| Coinage / Neologism | a word that is made up by a poet |
| Syntax | the order of words in a sentence |
| Etamology | the study of the sources of words |
| Epigram | a short, satirical lyric usually aimed at a specific person |
| Elegy | a lyric on the occasion of a death |
| Ode | a long lyric in elevated language on a serious theme |
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