Vocab
Rhythm is the ____ of the poem.
What is flow?
Iambic means ___
What is unstressed, stressed?
A sonnet has ___ lines typically.
What is fourteen?
This device involves giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This term refers to the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.
What is assonance?
Meter is the ___
What is repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry?
Trochaic means ___
What is stressed, unstressed?
This poetic meter is commonly used in sonnets, consisting of 5 pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
A repetition of similar sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
This term describes the central message or insight expressed by a poem, often relating to life, humanity or nature.
What is theme?
An Iamb contains __ syllables.
What is two?
Anapestic means ____
What is Unstressed, unstressed, stressed?
This poet is best known for his 154 sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A metaphor that extends over several lines or the entire poem.
What is extended metaphor?
This is the repetition of words at the beginning of lines or clauses, often used to emphasize a particular idea.
What is anaphora?
Scansion: A system for describing the ___ of the poem.
What is meter?
Dactylic means ___
This refers to the patter on stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
This term refers to the specific word choices an author makes in a poem to convey meaning, tone, and style.
What is diction?
Pyrrhic means ____
What is unstressed, unstressed?