Quizlet Poetry Vocabulary part 2

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  1. Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet: divided into an octave (abbaabba) and a sestet (cdecde)
  2. Shakespearean (English) sonnet: organized into three quatrains and a couplet; (abab cdcd efef gg)
  3. anapestic: two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed one
  4. assonance: repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same
  5. ballad stanza: consists of alternating eight and six-syllable lines
  6. blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter
  7. cacophony: language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce
  8. caesura: pause within a line (II)
  9. consonance: common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds
  10. couplet: consists of two lines that usally rhyme and have the same meter
  11. dactylic: one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones
  12. dimeter: two feet
  13. elegy: lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead (at a funeral)
  14. end rhyme: most common form of rhyme in poetry; the rhyme that comes at the end of the lines
  15. euphony: refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear
  16. foot: metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured
  17. form: overall structure or shape of a poem
  18. free verse: poems that do not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza
  19. heptameter: seven feet
  20. heroic couplet: consists of rhymed iambic pentameter
  21. hexameter: six feet
  22. iambic: consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
  23. internal rhyme: places at least one of the rhymed words within the line
  24. line: sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page
  25. meter: a regular pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables
  26. monometer: one foot
  27. octameter: eight feet
  28. octave: poetic stanza of eight lines; usually forming one part of a sonnet
  29. ode: characterized by a serious topic and formal tone
  30. pentameter: five feet
  31. quatrain: four-line stanza; most common stanzaic form in the English language and can have various meters and rhyme schemes
  32. rhyme: repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines
  33. rhyme scheme: pattern of end rhymes
  34. rhythm: a musical quality in language, produced by repetition
  35. scansion: process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line
  36. sestet: stanza consisting of exactly six lines
  37. sonnet: popular literary form in English since the sixteenth century
  38. spondee: two syllable foot in which both syllables are stressed
  39. stanza: consists of a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme
  40. stress: the emphasis, or accent, given a syllable in proununciation
  41. tercet: three-line stanza
  42. tetrameter: four feet
  43. trimeter: three feet
  44. triplet: three lines rhyme
  45. trochaic: consists of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable