| Term | Definition |
|---|
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry. The stressed is also called the accented or long syllable. The unstressed is also called the unaccented or short syllable. |
| foot | a unit of a meter. A metrical _______ can have 2 or 3 syllables. A _______ consists generally of 1 or more unstressed syllables. A line may have one ____, two _____, etc. Poetic lines are classified according to the number of ______ in a line. |
| Types of Metrical Feet | determined by the arrangements of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Iambic | two syllable foot with the stress on the 2nd syllable. The iambic foot is the most common in English. Eg: below, delight, amuse |
| Trochaic | 2 syllable foot with the stressed syllable followed by and unstressed syllable. Eg: never, gather, happy |
| Anapestic | 3 syllables with stress on the last syllable. EG: understand, intertwine |
| Dactylic | 3 syllables with stress on the first syllable Eg: happiness, merrily, murmuring |
| Spondaic | 2 stressed syllables for variabtion. Eg: heartbreak, childhood, football |
| Pyrrhic | 2 unstressed syllables. Rare; interspread with other feat. |
| Kinds of meter | monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, haptameter, octometer |
| Rhymed Verse | consists of verse with end rhyme and usually a regular meter |
| Blank Verse | Iambic pantameter without end rhyme |
| Free verse | no meter/rhyme |
| Internal Rhyme | rhymes within the line |
| End Rhyme | rhymes at ends of verses |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis |
| Antithesis | balances or contrasts one term against another |
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