Untitled Flashcards Set

Title: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

A villanelle focusing on the struggle against death.

Couplet

A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhymed.

Iambic Meter

A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Satirical Elegy

A poem that uses humor, irony, or ridicule to critique an event or subject, such as a death.

Ode

A form of lyrical poetry typically expressing praise for an object or theme.

Quatrain

A stanza or poem of four lines, often with alternating rhymes.

Sonnet

A 14-line poem typically written in iambic pentameter, exploring themes like love or mortality.

Blank Verse

Unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Free Verse

Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

Villanelle

A 19-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain, with a specific rhyme scheme.

Elegy

A mournful poem, typically lamenting the dead.

Theme

The central topic, subject, or concept that a piece of literature addresses.

Imagery

The use of vivid and descriptive language to create mental images.

Tone

The attitude of the writer conveyed through word choice and style.

Meter

The rhythmic structure of verses in poetry.