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A meter that uses a consistent number of strong speech stresses per line. The number of unstressed syllables may vary, as long as the accected syllables do not. Much popular poety, such as rap and nursery rhymes.
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A metrical foot in verse in which two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable, as in "on a boat" or "in a slump"
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| A meter that uses a consistent number of strong speech stresses per line. The number of unstressed syllables may vary, as long as the accected syllables do not. Much popular poety, such as rap and nursery rhymes. | Accentual meter |
| A metrical foot in verse in which two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable, as in "on a boat" or "in a slump" | Anapest |
| Traditionally, a song that tells a story. Originally an oral verse form, sun or recited and transmitted from performer to performer without being written down. Compressed, dramatic, and objective in narrative style. Most consist of quatrains | Ballad |
| The most common and well0known meter of unrhymed poetry. Contains five iambic feet per line and is never rhymed | Blank verse |
| A poetic device using elaborate comparisons, such as equating a loved one with the graces and beauties of the world. Most notable used by the Italian poet Petrarch in praise of his beloved Laura | Conceit |
| A two-line stanza in poetry, usually rhymed, which tends to have lines of equal length | Couplet |
| Word choice or vocabular. Refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate to use in a particular work | Diction |
| A verse meter consisting of two metrical feet, or two primary stresses, per line | Dimeter |
| A metrical foot of verse in which one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables | Dactyl |
| A long narrative poem usually composed in an elevated style tracing the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero. Usually written in a consistent form and meter throughout | Epic |
| The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical breat | Enjambment |
| A very short poem, often comic, usually ending with some sharp turn of wit or meaning | Epigram |
| A full rhyme in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound, as in follow and hollow, go and slow, disband and this hand | Exact rhyme |
| Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them | End rhyme |
| Has a rhyme scheme organized into three quatrains with a final couplet. The poem may turn or shift in mood or tone, between any of the quatrains | English or Shakespearean sonnet |
| The unit of measurement in metrical poetry. Different meters are identified by the pattern and order of stressed and unstressed syllables | Foot |
| The means by which a literary work conveys its meaning | Form |
| Describes poetry that organizes its lines without meter. It may be rhymed but it usually is not | Free verse |
| A verse meter consisting of six metrical feet, or six primary stresses, per line | Hexameter |
| A verse meter consisting of seven metrical feet, or seven primary streeses, per line | Heptameter |
| A Japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Often serious and spiritual in tone, relying on imagery, and usually set in one of the four seasons | Haiku |
| The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work | Imagery |
| Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetr, as opposed to end rhyme | Internal rhyme |
| A verse meter consisting of a specific recurring number of iambic feet per line | Iambic |
| A sonnet with the following rhyme pattern for the first eight line, abba, abba; the final six lines may follow any pattern of rhymes, as long as it does not end in a couplet | Italian or Petrarchan sonnet |
| A short and usually comic verse form of five anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba. The first, second, and fifth lines traditionally have three stressed syllables each; the third and fourth have two stresses each | Limerick |
| A short peom expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speakers. Often written in first person; has a songlike immediacy and emotional force | Lyric |
| A verse meter consisting of one metrical foot, or one primary stress, per line | Monometer |
| A recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern in verse | Meter |
| An extended speech by a single character. | Monologue |
| A poem that tells a story. ONe of the four traditional modes pof poetry, along with lyric, dramatic, and didactic; Ballads and epics are two common forms | narrative poetry |
| A verse meter consisting of eight metrical feet, or eight primary stresses per line | Octameter |
| A lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion | Ode |
| A stanza of eight lines | Octave |
| A verse meter consisting of five metrical feet, or five primary stresses, per line | Pentameter |
| A stanza consisting of four lines | Quatrain |
| Any recurrent pattern of rhyme within an individual poem or fixed form. | Rhyme scheme |
| A complex verse form in which six end words are repeated in a prescribed order through six stanzas. | Sestina |
| A traditional and widely used verse form, especially popular for love poetry. Is a fixed form of 14 lines, traditionally written in iambic pentameter, usually made up of an octave and concluding sestet | Sonnet |
| A rhyme in which the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different, as in letter and litter, bone and bean | Slant Rhyme |
| A practice used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents, and indicating the pauses | Scansion |
| A verse form in which the poet establishes a pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line. | Syllabic verse |
| A recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse, poetry's equivalent to the paragraph in prose. The basic organizational principle of most formal poetry | Stanza |
| A poem or stanza of six lines. | Sestet |
| An emphasis or accent placed on a syllable in speech | Stress |
| A person, place, or thing in a narrative that suggests meaning beyond its literal sense. | Symbol |
| A verse meter consisting of three metrical feet, or three primary stresses, per line | Trimeter |
| A verse meter consisting of four metrical feet, or four primary stresses, per line | Tetrameter |
| A short lyric form of eight rhymed lines borrowed from the French. The two opening lines are repeated according to a set pattern. Often playful | Trolet |
| A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable as in the words summer and chorus | Trochaic |
| A group of three lines of verse, usually all ending in the same rhyme | Tercet |
| A fixed form developed by French courtly poets of the Middle Ages in imitation of Italian fold song. Consists of six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a prescribed pattern | Villanelle |
| Refers to any single line of poetry; refers to any composition in lines of more or less regular rhythm | Verse |
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