Poetry Terms
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- scansion
- marking lines of poetry to determine meter
- triplet
- 3 lines
- free verse
- no reg. meter or end rhyme
- meter
- regularized pattern of stressed and unstressed
- Rhyme
- similarity or likeness of sound in 2 words or more
- septet
- 7 lines
- sestet
- 6 lines
- foot
- basic unit of meter used in scansion
- couplet
- 2 lines
- antithesis
- a strong contrast of words or clauses
- quintet
- 5 lines
- ballad
- a type of poem that is actually meant to be sung
- iambic
- u /
- pyrrhic
- u u
- apostrophe
- talking to something that is not alive or dead
- dactylic
- / u u
- blank verse
- iambic pentameter that isn't rhymed
- rhymed verse
- reg meter and rhyme scheme
- Rhythm
- Pattern of stressed and unstressed
- quatrain
- 4 lines
- spondaic
- / /
- stanza
- a single unit of lines
- octave
- 8 lines
- trochaic
- / u
- refrain
- repetition of different words or phrases at different intervals
- metrical verse
- any type of meter that isn't rhymed
- anapestic
- u u /