Meters
The name for the pattern of one unstressed and one stressed syllable
What is iambic?
This term described repeated sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
This is the term for a line that contains a complete phrase or ends with punctuation.
What is end-stopped?
This term means any phrase that engages the senses or creates a picture.
What is an image?
This term is for a stanza of two lines.
What is couplet?
The name for the pattern of one stressed and one unstressed syllable
What is trochaic?
This term describes repeated internal vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
This term means the actual words chosen in a given situation.
This term is a comparison between two seemingly unrelated things.
What is a metaphor?
This is the term for referring to non-human things as if they had human characteristics.
What is personification?
The term for a line with five poetic feet
What is pentameter?
This is the term for words that sound like the sounds they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the term for when a phrase spills onto a subsequent line of poetry.
What is enjambment?
This term refers to a metaphor that admits it is a metaphor.
What is a simile?
This term means the dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
The term for a line with three poetic feet
What is trimeter?
This is the term for a stanza of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
This term describes word choices that are casual.
What is informal diction?
This term is for an item or object that represents something deeper.
What is a symbol?
The term that refers to the implied meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
The term for a pattern of one stressed and two unstressed syllables.
What is Dactylic?
This is the term for a stanza of three lines.
What is a tercet?
This term means a pause in a line of verse.
What is a caesura?
This is the term for a dead or overused metaphor.
What is a cliche?
The name for the pattern of two unstressed and one stressed syllable.
What is anapestic?