LitC1
The patterns of rhyming words
Rhyme Scheme
unit of meter in poetry
Foot
The structured rhythm in a poem
Meter
Tells a story with a clear plot and characters
Narrative Poems
Poetry that doesn’t follow specific meter or rhyme scheme
Free Verse
A narrative Poem, often set to music
Ballad
The repetition of similar sounds
Rhyme
A short poem expressing personal feelings or thoughts
Lyric Poem
Two consecutive rhymed lines of poetry
Couplet
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Rhythm
A pause or break in a line of poetry
Caesura
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
A type of lyric poem that expresses deep feelings
Ode
a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.
Anapest
A metrical foot with one stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllable
Dactyl