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| caesura | a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry |
| lyric | is a short verse that is inteded to express the emotions of the author |
| alliteration | is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words |
| heroic couplet | consists of two successive rhyiming lines that contain a complete thought |
| end rhyme | is the rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry |
| monometer | one foot |
| pentameter | five feet |
| octometer | eight feet |
| heptameter | seven feet |
| tetrameter | four feet |
| hexameter | six foot |
| trimeter | three feet |
| dimeter | two feet |
| repetition | is the repeating of a word, a phrase, or an idea for emphases for rhythmic effect |
| meter | is the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| haiku | is a form of Japanese poetry that has three lines: the first line has five syllables, the second has seven syllables, and the third has five syllables. The subject of this type of poem has traditionally been nature |
| ballad | is a poem in verse form that tells a story |
| verse | is a metric line of poetry. It is named according to the kind and number of feet composing it |
| canto | is a main division of a long poem |
| enjambment | is the running over of a sentence of thought from one line to another |
| assonance | is the repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants |
| rhythm | is the regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry. Regular rhythm is called meter. Random occurrence of sound is called free verse |
| sonnet | a poem consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter |
| shakespearean sonnet | sonnet consists of three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. Usually the question or theme is set forth in the quatrains while the answer or resolution appears in the final couplet. |
| Italian sonnet | has two parts: an octave and a sestet, usually rhyming abbaabba, cdecde. Often a question is raised in the octave and answered in the sestet. |
| blank verse | an unrhymed form of poetry. Each line normally consists of 10 syllables in which every other syllable is stressed. |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning as in clang, buss, and twang |
| rhyme | the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words. Sat and cat are perfect rhymes because the vowel and final consonant sounds are exactly the same. |
| stanza | a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains |
| sestet | six-line stanza |
| quintet | five-line stanza |
| triplet | three-line stanza |
| seplet | seven-line stanza |
| quantrain | four-line stanza |
| octave | eight-line stanza |
| couplet | two-line stanza |
| free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| refrain | the repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza |
| couplet | pair of lines of verse of the same length that usually rhyme |
| internal rhyme | occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds. Although it is similar to alliteration, consonance is not limited to the first letters of words |
| foot | the smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line |
| sponditic | two stressed syllables |
| trochaic | stressed follwed by an unstressed syllable |
| anapestic | two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable |
| pyrrhic | two unstressed syllables |
| iambic | an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable |
| dactylic | stressed followed by two unstressed syllables |
