Rhythm
Define rhythm
A repeating pattern of sound
What is a foot?
What is alternate rhyme?
ABAB
Damp dandelions droop drowsily
Alliteration
Who wrote the poem "She Walks In Beauty"?
Lord Byron
What is regaular rhythm?
An alternating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is trimeter?
3 metrical feet in each line
What is coupled rhyme?
AA BB CC
Crash, boom, bang, pow!
Onomatopoeia
What are long poems about heroes called?
Epics
What is iamb?
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
What is a free verse poem?
A poem with no set meter or rhyme scheme
What is monorhyme?
AAAA
Life is a highway
Metaphor
Who is the most famous epic poet?
Homer
What is spondee?
Two stressed syllables in a row
What meter is used in the poem "She Walks In Beauty"?
Iambic tertrameter
What is internal rhyme?
When words rhyme in the same line
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
Hyperbole
What language do most poetry terms derive from?
Greek
What is dactyl?
A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
What meter are Shakespeare's plays in?
Iambic pentameter
What is near rhyme?
Words that sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly
The wind howled
Personification
Who created terza rima (chain rhyme)?
Dante