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What is alliteration?
Using the same beginning sound in a group of words.
How many lines does a Shakespearean sonnet have?
14
CATORCE
FOURTEEN
SHI ZI
Blank verse
Poetry written in unrhymed lines with a regular meter, often iambic pentameter.
Tercet
a three-line stanza
What is an elegy?
Formal poem reflecting on, and lamenting someone's death.
What is Oxymoron?
Combining contradictory terms to create a paradox
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in prose.
Hyperbole
Language exaggerated for effect
What is metre?
The rhythmic structure of a verse or a line. It involves organizing lines into patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Each unit of this pattern is called a "foot."
What is a rhyme?
Words with similar ending sounds, like "cat" and "hat."
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
Imagery
Words that paint pictures in your mind. It's like when a writer uses words to describe things so well that you can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel them in your imagination.
Enjanmbment
When a line or stanza of poetry is not end-stopped,allowing the sentence to run straight on into the next line.
Caesura
Punctuation used inside lines of poetry to create a pause.
Simile
Comparing two things using "like" or "as,"
Metaphor
Describing something by saying it is something else.
Personification
Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-human things or abstract concepts.
Free verse
Poetry without a regular rhyme or meter, allowing for more freedom in expression.
Iambic
A metrical foot in poetry with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, like "toDAY."
What is a narrative poem?
form of poetry that tells a story.
Quatrain
A four-line stanza
Dactylic
A metrical foot in poetry with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, like "MERrily."
Trochee
A metrical foot in poetry with one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, like "TIger."
Pentameter
A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, often iambic pentameter, common in English poetry.