Meter Terms
Meter with four poetic feet per line.
What is tetrameter?
The idle life I lead / Is like a pleasant sleep
What is iambic trimeter?
rhyme within a line of poetry
What is internal rhyme?
Female poet, lived 1830–1886, but did not gain fame until after she died. Wrote "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
Who was Emily Dickinson?
"My life is an open book"
What is a metaphor?
Poetic foot; 2 syllables; DA da
What is a trochee?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
AA BB CC, for example
What is rhyme scheme?
Wrote "Fire and Ice" and "The Road Not Taken"
"And you call me up again just to break me like a promise"
What is a simile?
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
What is free verse?
Nature's first green is gold / Her hardest hue to hold
What is iambic trimeter?
running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without end punctuation
What is enjambment?
Wrote "We Wear the Mask"
Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
"Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet."
What is personification?
Poetic foot; three syllables; da da DA
Anapest
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
What is trochaic octameter?
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
Who was Robert Frost?
"“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –"
What is a metaphor?
Meter consisting of 10 syllables total, stress: da DA
What is iambic pentameter?
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night;
What is trochaic tetrameter catalectic?
words that sound like their meaning (crash! bang!)
What is onomatopoeia?
His name is an example of alliteration; Wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends
Who is Shel Silverstein?
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;"
What is personification?