Figurative Language
The use of words, like "buzz" and "whirr" that imitate the sounds that they name.
onomatopoeia
Japanese poetry; three lines, each with a certain number of syllables: 5,7,5
Haiku
rhyming stanzas made up of two lines
couplet
Is this end rhyme or internal rhyme?
"There once was a person of bar
Who passed all her life in a jar"
end rhyme
A line of poetry with five metrical feet.
Pentameter
personification
A poem composed of five lines with an AABBA rhyme scheme. The 3rd and 4th line are shorter than the 1st, 2nd and 5th. It is usually a joke.
Limerick
A stanza composed of four lines.
Quatrain
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line.
Enjambment
What is the name of this type of foot: /U
Trochee
The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive clauses.
anaphora
A form of poetry composed of 1 tercet and 5 quatrains.
Villanelle
A stanza composed of five lines.
Cinquain
When caesura appears in the middle of a line of poetry is that initial, medial, or final caesura?
medial
A foot composed of two syllables, both stressed.
Spondee
The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within a word.
Consonance
A lyric poem addressing/celebrating a person, place, thing, or idea.
Ode
What is a Sestet?
A stanza composed of 6 lines.
Which lines are end stopped?
"How doth the little crocodile
improve his shining tail,
and pour the waters of the Nile
on every golden scale!"
Lines 2 and 4
How many dactyls are in this line?
"Half a league, half a league"
Two
The repeating of beginning consonant sounds in a group of words. This refers to the first sound NOT the first letter
alliteration
a fourteen-line lyric poem
sonnet
A stanza composed of eight lines.
Octave
A brief pause within a line of poetry.
caesura
What is the meter in this stanza?
"O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms"
U/U/U/U/
Four iambs--this is called iambic tetrameter