Glossary 8 Quiz

monologue

one-sided conversation

dialog

conversation between two people

apostrophe

talking to someone or something that is not there

soliloquy

talking aloud one’s personal thoughts

aside

short comment usually mid-dialog of one’s personal thoughts

breaking the fourth wall

act of breaking the fictional world by addressing reality

verse

stanzas and lines

line

A group of words in a row that ends with a line break in verse

line break

breaking up sentences into lines

stanza

group of lines

caesure

when a line is broken up by a pause

enjambment

running two or more lines of poem together without terminal punctuation

rhyme

repetition of sounds at the end of words

internal rhyme

rhyming words are in the middle of line instead end

half/slant rhyme

rhyme that is not perfect

rhyme scheme

pattern of rhyme of last word in reach line of poem

ode

poetry that is addressed to someone often as appreciation or dedication

ballad

story in verse

sonnet

have iambic pentameter, 14 lines, couplet at the end, love poem, ababcdcdefefgg

free/blank verse

poem that does not follow meter or rhyme

scansion

to read for the meter or beat of the words

meter

beat of the syllable

foot

type of beat

iambic pentameters

five meters of iambs

couplet

two lines in poetry that rhyme

heroic couplet

two lines in poetry that rhyme and have iambic pentameter