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literary terms: poetry notes from mr. steven van zoost

Poetry Meter (Iambic Pentameter) Rhythm Rhyme Stanza (octave,quatrain,couplet,sestet) Heroic Couplet Blank Verse Free Verse Epic Lyric Ode Elegy Ballad Sonnet (English / Italian) Dramatic monologue Narrative poetry Poetic license . Meter - regularized rhythm of accents that occur at apparently equal intervals in time. The number of feet (two syllables) in a line describes the meter. Iambic pentameter

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literary terms: poetry notes from mr. steven van zoost

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    1. Literary Terms:Poetry

    3. Meter - regularized rhythm of accents that occur at apparently equal intervals in time. The number of feet (two syllables) in a line describes the meter.

    4. Rhythm - any wave like recurrence of motion or sound.

    5. Rhyme scheme – any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas.

    6. Stanza – a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem. octave – 8 lines sestet – 6 lines quatrain – 4 lines

    7. Heroic Couplet – two successive lines written in iambic pentameter with an end rhyme

    8. Blank Verse – unrhymed iambic pentameter

    9. Lyric – a brief subjective poem written with imagination, melody, and emotion, and creating a single, unified impression (eg. A sonnet, ode, elegy, or ballad)

    10. Ode – a long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.

    11. Sonnet Italian Sonnet - a fourteen lined poem with an octave and a sestet written in iambic pentameter with a rhyming scheme of:abba abba cde cde

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