Poetry key words

Questão	Responda
Alliteration	Repetition of the same constant sounds at the beginning of words very close to each other
Allusion	When a speaker or character !takes a casual reference to a famous historical/literary figure or event
Ballad	Poem that tells a story. Repetition is a common feature and has usually a fast pace
Ballade	8 line stanzas (rhyme ABABBCBC). Ends with a kind of PostScript Starts with an address to the poets prince
Balzon	Poetic listing of a loved ones qualities
Caesura	A break within a line of phrase. Usually indicated by a punctuation mark
Couplet	2 lines with the same metre that rhymes
End-Stopped	When a line ends with a punctuation mark
Enjambment	Continuation of a sentence/clause beyond the end of a line and onto the next one
Extended metaphor	A metaphor that is carried beyond a single comparison and developed further
Foot	Unit of rythm in a metrical line
Free verse	Poetry that has no regular metre/rhyme scheme
Image patterns	Image/connected images are used more than once
Imagism/Imagist	Poem which is concise and uses hard, clear and concentrated imagery as a main way of creating meaning
Iamb	A metrical foot consisting of a short beat followed by a long beat
Iambic pentameter	A metre of 5 iambic feet
Metaphor	When something is described as something else. Involves linking something to something that is not related to it
Metre	A regular rhythm used to structure a line of verse
Octave	An 8 line verse
Onomatopoeia	When a word sounds like what it refers to e.g. boom
Ottava rima	Italian stanza made from 8, 11 syllable lines
Pastiche	Work which deliberately copes the style of another
Pastoral	Presents rural people in an idealistic way
Presonifiction	Something non-human described as though it was human.
Pre-lapsarian	Before the loss of innocence
Quatrain	A 4 line verse
Rhyming couplet	Within a poem a rhyming unit of 2 lines
Rhyme royal	A rhyming stanza form
Scheme	This is a figure of speech. Deals with things like word order and sound rather than the meaning of the word.
Sestet	A 6 line verse often used to describe the second section of 1 form of sonnet
Sonnet	14 lines in iambic pentameter + a regular rhyme scheme. Feature a turn towards the middle of the sonnet where the author/speaker change the argument in some way.
Speaker	The voice that speaks the poem
Stanza	Group of lines (a seperate unit) that helps to break up/organises the way a poem appears on the page.
Symbol	It is something more than just a literar meaning. With this the significance of something is left open
Tercet	3 line stanza
Triplet	Stanza of 3 lines in which each line rhymes
Troubadour	French/medieval/travelling lyric poet/minstrel from Provencal in the 11th to 13th centuries
Verse paragraph	Stanzas of poetry without any patterns or rhymes. Usually separated by a blank line
Volta	A turning point/shift in mood or argument of a sonnet

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