Poetry Test Terms
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sgeevarghese on November 8, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Prosody | study of poetic meter |
| Meter | the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
| Free Verse | poetry without an identifiable meter |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Foot | basic unit of meter |
| Monometer | one foot per line |
| Dimeter | two feet per line |
| Trimeter | three feet per line |
| Tetrameter | four feet per line |
| Pentameter | five feet per line |
| Hexameter | six feet per line |
| Heptameter | seven feet per line |
| Octometer | eight feet per line |
| Iamb | unstressed and then stressed |
| Trochee | stressed and then unstressed |
| Dactyl | stressed,unstressed,unstressed |
| Anapest | unstressed,unstressed,stressed |
| Synaesthesia | a blending or intermingling of senses in description |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the beginning consonant sounds of neighboring words within a line |
| Assonance | The relatively close use of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants |
| Consonance | The close repetition of the same end consonants, but with differing vowel sounds coming before. |
| End Rhyme | A rhyme between the last word or syllable of one line of poetry with the last word or syllable of another line. |
| Internal Rhyme | Also called middle rhyme, a rhyme occurring within the line. The rhyme may be with two (or more) words within the lines, or with a word in the line and the word at the end. |
| Rhythm | A musical quality produced by the repetition of stress and unstressed syllables (meter) or by the repetition of words and phrases or even whole lines or sentences |
| Meter | A measure of rhythm in a poem, organized into groups of syllables at regular intervals in a line of poetry. |
| Enjambment | The continuation of the sense of a sentence or phrase beyond the end of a line. Shows emphasis, catches reader's eye, maintains order and form of poem, sounds different. |
| Free Verse | Poetry that doesn't rhyme or have a regular meter or rhythm. |
| Repetition | The repetition of sound, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and sound patterns Repetition establishes cycles of expectation for the reader and emphasizes things that are important to the poem. |
| Imagery | Words in a literary work that are designed to create images in your mind. Auditory (sounds) images, tactile (touch) images, and visual images are all created with words in poetry. |
| Metaphor | Comparison of two unlike things A comparison that suggests that one thing is the same or another; metaphors often use a being verb, like "is" or "was," to equate the two things |
| Simile | A comparison of two things that uses like or as to make the comparison Both things being compared are always in the line. |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that imitate sounds,like whispering, clang, and sizzle; any word whose suggestive of its meaning |
| Personification | Human characteristics are given to an animal, object, or idea A type of metaphor in which distinctive human characteristics are given to an animal, object, or idea - Honesty, emotion |
| Euphony | the use of pleasant, harmonious sounds |
| Cacophany | the use of harsh, unpleasant sounds |
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