Poetry
The haiku form requires __________ in line length.
parallelism
Define consonance
the repetition of terminal consonant sounds and more rarely of internal consonants
Which poetic foot is most commonly used?
the iamb
a pair of words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds
slant rhyme
The following phrase best exemplifies which sound device? “Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum!”
alliteration
The following lines from “The Charge of the Light Brigade” exhibit what form of repetition?
anaphora
Define scansion
the process of identifying the two major features of meter in a poem
What is the pattern for trochaic foot?
two syllables: stressed/unstressed
(ie. garden, apple, tiger)
the plot resolution presenting the final outcome of the story in which the complications are explained or settled
dénouement
What are the two types of sonnets?
Italian sonnets and English sonnest
Which traditional form is a lyric poem of fourteen lines?
Define free verse
poetry with neither regular rhyme nor regular meter
What is the pattern for pyrrhic foot?
two unstressed syllables
(ie. in a, on the, photography, academy)
a reference either to events that occurred before the main action of the story or to action that occurred before the time in which the narrator is speaking
flashback
What is the purpose of a plot twist?
to contradict/violate the readers’ expectations
Name two ways in which the haiku and cinquain forms are similar.
both are centered on evocative images, both ask the reader to infer the meaning of the poem, both rely on a syllable count to structure the lines (though the cinquain counts only stressed syllables), and neither requires rhyme or meter
Define anaphora
the repetition of specific words or phrases at the beginnings of lines or grammatical units
three syllables: two unstressed/one stressed
(ie. at the door, in your book, interrupt, underneath)
poetic technique is described as two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel
rhyme
What is a stanza?
a division of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme and usually recognized by the number of lines it contains
How does the following line from “Sonnet 29” exhibit chiasmus?
“With what I most enjoy contented least.”
The final four words display chiasmus (adverb, verb, verb, and adverb.)
Define chiasmus
two word groups in which the content or structure of the second inversely parallels that of the first
The following lines from “The Charge of the Light Brigade” exhibit which pattern?
“Honor the charge they made! / Honor the Light Brigade”
dactylic foot
three syllables: one stressed/two unstressed
the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words
assonance
How are the lines of a cinquain structured?
by the number of stressed syllables contained in each line
(ie.
Ice cream 2
Cold and yummy 4
Eating, giggling, licking 6
Cone with three scoops 4
Dessert 2)