WGU Literature Poetry terms
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| It is based on both the number of stresses, or accents, and the number of syllables in each line of verse. | show 🗑
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| A poem that recounts a story, usually a single episode, that was originally intended to be sung. | show 🗑
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| show | Ballad
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| Amour propre: feelings of excessive pride. What is the kind of figure of speech? | show 🗑
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| This refers specifically to the choice and phrasing of words suitable to verse. | show 🗑
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| A long, formal narrative poem with elevated style. | show 🗑
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| This narrate a story of national importance based on the life and actions of a hero. Frequently the fate of the nation depends upon the hero and his actions. Often the hero is either descended from or protected by the gods. | show 🗑
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| show | Enjambment
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| This occurs when the sense and/or grammatical structure of a sentence moves from one verse line to the next without a punctuated pause. | show 🗑
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| This is connotative and conveys the richness and complexity of language. | show 🗑
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| This uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and alliteration. In contrast to literal language wherein words are taken in their primary or denotative sense. | show 🗑
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| show | Foot
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| show | iamb (iambic, adj.)
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| A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is... | show 🗑
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| A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables is... | show 🗑
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| Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable is... | show 🗑
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| show | spondee (spondaic, adj.)
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| A foot of two successive syllables that are equally or almost equally unstressed is... | show 🗑
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| show | Meter
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| What is the process of determining the prevailing foot in a line of poetry, of determining the types and sequence of different feet. | show 🗑
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| show | Monometer
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| show | Dimeter
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| show | Trimeter
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| A metrical line of poetry consisting of four metrical units, or feet. Meter is the rhythm in poetry made by these units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | Pentameter
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| A line of poetry consisting of six metrical units, or feet. Meter is the rhythm in poetry made by these units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | Heptameter
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| A metrical line of poetry consisting of eight metrical units, or feet. Meter is the rhythm in poetry made by these units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | Nonameter
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| show | Decameter
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| show | Form
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| show | Form
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| Lines of unrhymed verse, almost always in iambic pentameter. | show 🗑
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| show | Iambic pentameter
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| This is the meter that most closely resembles the natural patterns of English speech. | show 🗑
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| show | Free Verse
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| The shortest form of Japanese poetry, constructed in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively. | show 🗑
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| The message of this poem usually centers on some aspect of spirituality and provokes an emotional response in the reader. | show 🗑
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| show | Limerick
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| A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme. | show 🗑
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| This is divided into two main sections, the octave (first eight lines) and the sestet (last six lines). The octave presents a problem or situation which is then resolved or commented on in the sestet. | show 🗑
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| show | Epigram
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| This is a one stanza poem of eight lines. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and often all lines are in iambic tetrameter: | show 🗑
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| show | Triolet
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| show | Villanelle
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| show | Sestina
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| Depictions of objects or qualities perceived by the five senses | show 🗑
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| show | Imagery
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| The depiction of visual objects or scenes. | show 🗑
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| show | Imagery
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| Generally, rhyme refers to the similar sound in syllables or paired groups of syllables. | show 🗑
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| This, which occurs within a line of verse, is less common than end rhyme, which occurs at the end of a line of verse. | show 🗑
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| show | Lyric
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| These poems are not limited to a specific meter or form but are almost always about emotion, frequently concerning themes of love and grief. | show 🗑
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| show | Meter
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| show | a foot (feet, plural)
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| This usually consists of one or more stressed syllables with one or more unstressed syllables. | show 🗑
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| To determine the meter, one first | show 🗑
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| A unit of poetic meter (or foot) that involves an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | show 🗑
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| This make up a poem’s meter, or rhythms in poetry made by units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. | show 🗑
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| show | Trochaic
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| A common metrical unit of poetry consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. | show 🗑
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| A common metrical unit of poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. | show 🗑
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| is a “dramatic sketch performed by one actor”. Is an extended, uninterrupted speech or poem by a single person. | show 🗑
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| show | Monologue
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| The narration of an event or story, stressing details of plot, incident, and action. Along with dramatic and lyric verse, it is one of the three main groups of poetry. | show 🗑
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| show | A Narrative
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| show | Ode
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| show | Ode
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| show | Rhyme scheme
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| show | Rhyme Royal
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| also known as perfect rhyme | show 🗑
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| An exact correspondence in the vowel sound and, in words ending in consonants, the sound of the final consonant. | show 🗑
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| A difference in the consonant sounds preceding the vowel | show 🗑
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| show | Exact rhyme
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| A rhyme in which the sounds are similar, but not exact, as in home and come or close and lose. | show 🗑
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| Most near rhymes are types of ________. | show 🗑
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| A rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line of poetry with that of another line, as opposed to internal rhyme. | show 🗑
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| show | slant rhyme
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| show | Exact rhyme
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| Ribbed, robbed is what kind of rhyme | show 🗑
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| Though, tough is what kind of rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | Eye rhyme
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| show | Slant rhyme
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| show | Scansion
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| This will also show the variations in the meter and the deviations from it, if there are any. | show 🗑
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| A type of verse distinguished primarily by the syllable count, i.e., the number of syllables in each line, rather than by the rhythmical arrangement of accents or time quantities. | show 🗑
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| This has two main parts: an octave (eight lines) with a rhyme scheme of abba abba followed by a sestet (six lines) with a rhyme scheme of cde cde (or sometimes cdc cdc). | show 🗑
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| show | The Italian
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| show | English (Shakespearean)
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| The sestets describe a problem or situation that is repeated in each sestet with some variation; the remaining couplet offers a summary, usually with a turn of thought. | show 🗑
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| show | Spenserian sonnet
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| A grouping of verse lines often (but not always) with a common rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or line length. | show 🗑
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| This is determined by its number of lines, number of metrical feet per line, and the meter and rhyme. | show 🗑
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| Two rhymed lines is called... | show 🗑
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| show | Tercet
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| Uses the rhyme scheme a,a,a with no specific meter is called... | show 🗑
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| 4 lines with varying rhyme schemes is called... | show 🗑
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| Six rhymed verse lines is called... | show 🗑
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| show | Octave
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| show | Stress
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| Something that stands for something else or that represents something larger, such as a concept or idea. | show 🗑
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| show | Verse
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| show | Verse
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| show | Verse
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