Metrical Feet
unstressed unstressed stressed
What is Anapestic?
Naming an object for another object.
What is metonymy?
similar likeness of sound existing between two words.
What is Rhyme?
the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word: lawful and awful; lighting and fighting
What is Feminine Rhyme?
the word or phrase to which a pronoun refers.
What is antecedent?
stressed unstressed
What is Trochaic?
Addressing someone or something usually not present. Example: “Death be not proud, though some have called thee" (Donne)
What is apostrophe?
An extended metaphor
What is a conceit?
the last three syllables of a word or line rhyme: victorious and glorious; quivering and shivering, battering and shattering.
What is Triple Rhyme?
Repetition of one of more phrases of lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza. Takes the form of a chorus in a song.
What is Refrain?
unstressed unstressed and rare
What is Pyrrhic?
Consists of five tercets and a quatrain
What is a villanelle?
consists of line of iambic pentameter without end rhyme.
What is Blank Verse?
one syllable of a word rhymes with another word: bend and send, bright and light.
What is Masculine Rhyme?
an abrupt statement that expresses a general truth
What is aphorism?
Name the meter and foot: Thus I Pass by And die, As one, Unknown And gone.
What is Iambic Monometer?
A poem or play that idealizes the simple, natural life.
What is Pastoral?
consists of lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme.
What is Free Verse?
Seven lines of iambic pentameter rhyming in a-b-a-, b-c-b, -c-d-c, etc.
Rime Royal
A nine-line stanza consisting of 8 iambic pentameter lines and a hexameter.
What is a Spenserian Sonnet?
Name the meter and foot: Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,
What is trochaic octometer?
The difference between an English vs. Petrarchan sonnet?
English sonnet - 14 (4 quatrains, couplet)
Italian 14 ( octave, sestet)
similarity occurring between two or more words in the same line of verse. "Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered weak and WEARY,"
What is Internal Rhyme?
consists of five tercets and a quatrain.
What is a villanelle?
The first term of contrast happens in a phrase; the second happens conceptually or in a statement
What is oxymoron and paradox?