APLIT POETRY TERMS
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speaker
the person who is expressing the point of view in a poem, usually a persona created by a poet
fixed form
may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhyme, or stanzas
blank verse
has meter but no rhyme (typically iambic pentameter)
free verse
no meter or rhyme
ballad
are narratives and typically written in 4 line stanzas, alternating 8/6 syllables per line. Lines 2 and 4 usually rythme
lyric poetry
short poem expressing the personal thoughts or feelings of a first person speaker
narrative poetry
tells a story
prose poetry
appears as prose, but reads as poetry
couplet
2 lines
tercet
3 lines
quatrain
4 lines
cinquain
5 lines
sestet
6 lines
septet
7 lines
octave
8 lines
foot
basic measurement of meter (made up 2 or 3 syllables either accented or unaccented)
iamb
unstressed, stressed
trochee
stressed, unstressed
anapest
unstressed, unstressed, stressed
dactyl
stressed, unstressed, unstressed
spondee
stressed, stressed
monometer
one foot
dimeter
two feet
trimeter
three feet
tetrameter
four feet
pentameter
five feet
hexameter
six feet
heptameter
seven feet
octameter
eight feet
scansion
process of marking poetry's feet and stress is called scansion
end rhyme
rhyming words are at the end of lines
internal rhyme
one or more words within the line rhyme
slant/approx. rhyme
words w/ a sound similarity, but not an exact rhyme
rhyme scheme
the pattern of rhyme in a poem
masculine rhyme
rhymes made up of one syllable
feminine rhyme
rhymes made up of two or more syllables
run-on lines/enjambment
one line ends w/out a pause and must continue to the next line to complete its meaning
end-stopped lines
concludes w/ punctuation that marks a pause or the line can be understood on its own
rhyme
the repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds
alliteration
repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words or syllables
assonance
repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words
consonance
identical final consonant sounds in nearby words follow different vowel sounds
onomatopoeia
words that refer to sounds and whose pronunciations mimic those sounds