ela poetry test

emjambent

line breaks, but sentences/ideas continue

mark used to show the end of poetry line

“/” at end of poem line, not end of quotation line

(ex. kaia is great / she is impossible

to hate / )

end-stop

ideas/sentences end at the end of the line

stanza

a set of lines in a poem that are grouped together (poem paragraph)

Rhyme scheme

the pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem

Internal rhyme

within a line there’s rhyming

meter

the rhythm of a poem, established by stressed and unstressed syllables

stressed syllable symbol

/

unstressed syllable symbol

u

Free verse

No set meter or rhyme scheme

fixed form

set number of lines, rhymes, and/or metrical patterns

Meter - scansion

the process of identifying a poem’s meter

foot

metrical unit consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables

types of feet (dawgs)

iambs, trochee, tactyls, and anapests

iamb

foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (u/)

Trochee

foot with one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (/u)

____-meter

number of feet per line (ex. __penta__meter)

1

mono

2

di

3

tri

4

tetra

5

pentameter

6

hexa

7

hepta

8

octa

formula of meter formatting

\[Adj. form of metrical foot\] + \[number of feet per line\]meter

sonnets

fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter

types of sonnets

petrarchan sonnet, shakespearean sonnet

petrarchan sonnet

typically divided into 2 stanzas:an octave (8) and a sestet (6)

rhyme scheme of petrarchan

abba, abba, cdecde/cdcdcd

Shakespearean sonnet

made up of 3 quatrains (4) & a couplet (2)

Rhyme scheme of shakespearean sonnet

abab, cdcd, efef, gg