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Literature LCC WGU11
Literature-Notes Chapter 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Couplet | two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes. it is ta two-line stanza with both grammatical structure and idea complete within itself |
| Anapest | Consisting of three syllables, with two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one (ex. Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.-Shelley "The Cloud") |
| Consonance | the relation between words in which the final consants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that precede them differ, as "add-read," "mill-ball", and "torn-burn" |
| Dactyl | a foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented |
| Diameter | |
| Decameter | |
| Enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line on to the next verse or couplet it occurs in run-on lines and offers contrast to end-stopped lines |
| End Rhyme | rhyme at the ends of lines in a poem. The most common kind of rhyme. |
| Eye Rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from the spelling but is not so from the pronunciation, as "watch" and match" or "love" and "move" |
| Iamb (Iambus) | A fott consisting of an unaccented syllable and an accented. The most common rhythm in English verse for many centuries |
| Foot | the unit of rhythm in verse, whether quantitative or accentual-syllabic |
| Hexameter | a line of six feet |
| Heptameter | a line consisting of seven feet |
| Internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllables in a line |
| Meter | The recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern, or the rhythm established by the regular occurrence of similar units of sound. (kinds: quantitative, accentual, syllabic, accentual-syllabic) |
| Monometer | a line of verse consisting of one foot |
| Octameter | a line of eight feet. it is fairly rare in English verse. |
| Nonameter | |
| Octave | an eight-line stanza |
| Pentameter | a line of verse of five feet. serious verse in English since the time of Chaucer-epic, drama, meditative, narrative-and many conventional forms |
| Pyrrhic | a foot of two unaccented syllables. |
| Quatrain | a stanza of four lines. |
| Rhythm | the passage of regular or approzimately equivalent time intervals between definite events or the recurrence of specific sounds or kinds of sound |
| Stress (stressed syllable) | the emphasis given a spoken syllable |
| Stanza | a recurrent grouping of two or more verse lines in terms of length, metrical form, and often, rhyme scheme |
| Sestet | the second, six-line division of an Italian sonnet |
| Scansion | a system for describing conventional rhythms by dividing lines into feet, indicating the locations of binomial accents, and counting the syllables. |
| Slant rhyme | near rhyme; usually the substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme |
| Spondee (Spondiac) | a foot composed of two accented syllables |
| Tercet | a stanza of three lines, a triplet, in which each line ends with the same rhyme |
| Rhythm | the assage of regular or approximately equivalent time intervals between definite events or the recurrence of specific sounds or .kinds of sound |
| Trochee (Trochaic) | a foot consisting of an accented and an unaccented syllable as in the word "happy". they are generally unpopular for sustained writing, because they soon degenerate into rocking rhythm |
| Trimester | |
| Tetrameter | a line consisting of four feet |
| Verse | used in two senses--1 as a unite of poetry, 2 as a name given generally to metrical composition |
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