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What is Allusion?
a reference to something that the reader is familiar with
What is monometer?
A line with one foot
What is blank verse?
Five meterical feet with no rhyme
What is rhyme scheme?
refers to the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line. It's annotated with letters
What is anaphora
Repeating the same word at the beginning of each line.
What is dimeter?
A line with two feet
What is caesura?
A pause or break in the line of poetry
What is sonnet?
a poem containing fourteen lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme.
What is anapest?
A metrical foot (rhythm) and emphasis on 2 stressed syllables and followed by an unstressed syllables
What is trimeter?
A line with three feet
What is couplet?
Two lines of poetry that rhyme
What is English (Shakespearean) Sonnet?
Three quatrains and a couplet, usually following a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
What is alliteration?
Repeating the same sound at the beginning of words
What is tetrameter?
A line with four feet
What is dactyl?
Stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllable in a metric foot of poetry
What is Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet?
An octave followed by a sestet, with rhyming iambic pentameter and a volta (turning point) around the eighth line, usually following a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDECDE.
What is assonance?
Repetition of vowel sounds
What is pentameter?
A line with five feet
What is enjambent?
Looks like a run on sentence, lacks punctuation
What is trochee?
Trochee is a metrical foot containing a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.