Poetry Quiz 3

Ballad: A narrative poem, often set to music, that tells a story

Literary ballad: A written ballad that imitates traditional folk ballads but is crafted by a poet

Onomatopoeia: A word that imitates a sound

Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words (rise high in the bright sky)

Euphony: Pleasant, harmonious sound in poetry 

Cacophony: Harsh, jarring sounds in poetry

Rhyme: The repetition of similar sounds, usually at the ends of words

Eye rhyme: Words that look like they should rhyme but don’t (love & move)

End rhyme: Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines

Internal rhyme: Rhyme within the same line of poetry

Masculine rhyme: A rhyme that ends on a stressed syllable (cat & hat)

Feminine rhyme: A rhyme that ends on an unstressed syllable (table & label)

Exact: Words that rhyme perfectly (light & night)

Near: Words that sound similar but don't rhyme exactly (heart & hurt)

Off: Same as near rhyme

Slant: Same as near rhyme

Approximate: Same as near rhyme

Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words (blank & think)

Rhythm: The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

Stress: The emphasis placed on certain syllables in a word

Accent: 

Meter: The structured pattern of rhythm in a poem

Prosody: The study of rhythm, sound, and meter in poetry

Scansion: The process of analyzing a poem’s meter by marking stressed and unstressed syllables

Foot: The basic unit of meter, consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables 

Catalexis: the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse

Rising meter: A meter that moves from unstressed to stressed syllables

Falling meter: A meter that moves from stressed to unstressed syllables

Line: A single row of words in a poem

Iambic pentameter: A poetic meter with five iambs (unstressed-stressed) per line

Blank verse: Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter

Spondee: two stressed syllables

Dactyl: one stressed, two unstressed 

Iamb: one unstressed, one stressed

Trochee: one stressed, one unstressed

Anapest: two unstressed, one stressed

Masculine ending: line ends on a stressed syllable 

Feminine ending: line ends on an unstressed syllable

Caesura: A pause within a line of poetry

End-stopped line: A line that ends with a natural pause, usually marked by punctuation

Run-on line: A line that continues without a pause into the next line

Enjambment: The continuation of a sentence or phrase beyond the end of a line