Drop the Beat(s)
This is the specific term for a two-line stanza.
What is a couplet?
Represented in scansion by two parallel vertical bars (||), this is a stop or pause in a metrical line.
What is a caesura?
This competitive poetry performance genre originated at Chicago's Green Mill Tavern in 1987.
What is slam poetry?
In literature, this specific perspective immerses the reader directly into the narrative as a character by using the pronoun "You".
What is 2nd Person perspective?
Words like "move" and "love" look like they should rhyme but sound completely different, creating this deceptive type of imperfect rhyme.
What is an eye rhyme?
This two-syllable metrical foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
he rhyme scheme pattern ABAB is more commonly known by this alternating name.
What is Alternate Rhyme?
This term describes nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of everyday speech.
What is free verse?
This medium of live action rejects clear narrative, emphasizes the artist's action in real time, and rarely yields a final object to be sold.
What is Performance Art?
This shorter, four-line stanza traditionally serves as the concluding section of a ballade.
What is an envoi?
Consisting of exactly four lines, this is widely considered one of the most popular stanza forms in poetry.
What is a quatrain?
This "flashy," two-syllable rhyme pairing uses words with double rhymes, such as "willing" and "thrilling".
What is a feminine rhyme?
In the 1950s, this nonconformist group of poets arose to rebel against mainstream American life through spoken word performances.
Who are the Beat Poets?
Occurs when a visual image creates the illusion of a tridimensional space on a flat surface.
What is imaging perspective?
In a traditional ballade, the final line of each stanza always remains exactly the same, acting as this repetitive element.
What is a refrain?
This aggressive two-syllable foot features two stressed syllables back-to-back.
What is a spondee?
In Beowulf, the line "He was safe, || by his spells" uses this specific type of caesura, which occurs immediately after a stressed or accented syllable.
What is a masculine caesura?
These living, breathing historians and storytellers from West Africa were responsible for carrying spoken word traditions and history to new continents
Who are griots?
Also known as "true perspective," this is the natural type of visual perspective that occurs when a human views an object directly in physical reality.
What is retinal perspective?
It won't be televised
What is the Revolution?
his rare two-syllable foot consists of two unstressed syllables.
What is a pyrrhic (or dibrach)?
This specific, interlocking rhyme scheme follows the continuous pattern ABA BCB CDC DED.
What is Terza Rima?
He organized the first slam poetry competition because he believed the very word "poetry" repelled people based on what schools had done to it.
Who is Marc Smith (or Slam Papi)?
While the term only became widely used in the 1970s, the history of performance in the visual arts traces back to dada cabarets and the productions of this specific anarchist group of artists in the 1910s.
Who are the Futurists?
This author wrote the famous line "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" as part of her celebrated collection, Sonnets from the Portuguese.
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?