Lit Terms - Poetry
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 iambic | unstressed, stressed |
| trochaic | stressed, unstressed |
| anapestic | unstressed, unstressed, stressed |
| dactylic | stressed, unstressed, unstressed |
| spondee | stressed, stressed |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) |
| cacophony | harsh, dissonant sounds |
| cadence | rhythmic flow of poetry; marching beat |
| caesura | a pause or break within a line of poetry |
| conceit | An elaborate extended metaphor or other figure of speech that compares two things that are strikingly different. |
| consonance | aka Slant Rhymes: when words appearing at the ends of two or more verses have similar final consonant sounds but have final vowel sounds that different. i.e. "stuff" and "off" |
| controlling image | An image or metaphor that runs througout and determines the form or nature of a literary work |
| couplet | two lines of poetry with the same rhyme and meter |
| dirge | a funeral hymn or lament |
| dissonance | a harsh disagreeable combination of sounds |
| dramatic monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. |
| elegy | a mournful poem |
| enjambent | A line of poetry that is a run-on to the following verse. |
| epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| euphony | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds |
| foot | smallest unit of rhythm in poetry |
| Free verse | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things |
| lyric | a short poem of songlike quality |
| measure | foot, verse, or time sequence used in a poem |
| meter | repetition of sound patterns |
| Octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
| ode | A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. |
| pentameter | a verse line having five metrical feet |
| persona | a mask; an actor's portrayal of someone in a play |
| pyrrhee | weak-weak |
| quatrain | a stanza of four lines |
| refrain | A phrase repeated at intervals throughout a poem. |
| repetition | repeating words, phrases, lines or groups of lines in a poem |
| scansion | analysis of verse into metrical patterns |
| sestet | A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem |
| sestina | A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter |
| Sonnet | a fourteenline poem usually written in iambic pentameter |
| English sonnet | a sonnet w/ three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg |
| Italian sonnet | an eight-line octave and a six-line sestet, rhyming abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
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