Quiz 3 poetry terms

Ballad

a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

Literary ballad

a narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk ballad.

Onomatopoeia

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Alliteration

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Assonance

in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

Euphony

the acoustic effect produced by words so formed or combined as to please the ear/ a harmonious succession of words having a pleasing sound

Cacophony

harsh or jarring sound, dissonance sense, specifically harshness in the sound of words or phrases

Rhyme

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

Eye rhyme

a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

End rhyme

when the last syllables within a verse rhyme

Internal rhyme

a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

Masculine rhyme

a specific kind of rhyme that appears in many poetic works

Feminine rhyme

a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables

Exact

occurs when two or more words, usually but not always at the end of their respective lines of a poem, rhyme perfectly

Near

a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds

Off

the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa

Slant

a rhyming scheme with words that sound similar but not exactly the same

Approximate

Where exact rhyme repeats the same sounds in multiple words

Consonance

harmony or agreement, especially of musical tones or speech sounds

Rhythm

a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

Stress

give particular emphasis or importance to (a point, statement, or idea) made in speech or writing

Accent

a distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch

Meter

the systematic arrangement of words involving stressed and unstressed syllables

Prosody

the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry

Scansion

the method or practice of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse

Foot

a unit of measurement in poetry, comprised of patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables

Catalexis

the absence of a syllable at the beginning or end of a line of metrical verse resulting in an incomplete foot, most often occurring in the last foot at the end of a verse; a catalectic line

Rising meter

contains metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables

Falling meter

a stressed syllable followed by one or two unstressed syllables

Line

a subdivision of a poem

Iambic pentameter

a line of verse composed of ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet (iambs), each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Blank verse

verse without rhyme, especially that which uses Iambic pentameter

Spondee

a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables

Dactyl

a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

Iamb

a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

Trochee

a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable followed by one short syllable or of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable

Anapest

a unit of poetry made up of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable

Masculine ending

a line ending in a stressed syllable

Feminine ending

a line ending in a stressless syllable

Caesura

a pause near the middle of a line

End-stopped line

a metrical line containing a complete phrase or sentence, or a poetic line ending with punctuation

Run-on line

having a thought that carries over to the next line, especially without a syntactical break

Enjambment

the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza