Category 1
repeating the same sound at the beginning of words. (Constant sounds)o
What is Alliteration ?
Looks like a run on sentence. (lacks punctuation)
What is Enjambment?
2-3 syllables in a line of poetry usually stressed then unstressed
Foot?
Repetition of vowel sounds
what is Assonance?
Stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllable in a metric foot of poetry
What is Dactyl?
A quote that gives some background info at the start of the poem.
What is Epigraph?
A metrical foot (rhythm) and emphasis on 2 stressed syllables and followed by an unstressed syllables
What is Anapest ?
A line with two feet
What is Dimeter?
A line with one foot
What is Monometer?
is the rhythmic measure of a line. It defines the pattern of the beats.
What is Meter?
A pause or break in the line of poetry. (Punctuation lets you know)
What is Caesura?
a poem containing fourteen lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme.
What is sonnet?
a reference to something that the reader is familiar with
What is Allusion ?
A line with three feet
What is Trimeter ?
A line with five feet
What is Pentameter?
A line with six feet
What is Hexameter?
A line with seven feet
What is Heptameter?
a metrical foot containing a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is Trochee?
the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line.
What is Heptameter ?
Lines in a poem consisting of 5 feet and 10 syllables
Iambic Pentameter
A line with four feet
What is Tetrameter?
5 meterical feet with no rhyme
Blank Verse
Repeating the same word at the beginning of each line.
What is Anaphora ?
2 lines of poetry that rhyme
What is Couplet?
2nd syllable of a word is more pronounced.
What is Iamb ?