Poetry

Seshat (United Kingdom)
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  1. accentual
    of or pertaining to accent or stress
  2. acrostic
    verse in which the first letter in each line forms a message
  3. Alcaic verse
    verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus
  4. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  5. anacoluthon
    an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
  6. anapaest
    two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable
  7. anapest
    two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable
  8. antistrophe
    the second of three sections of a classical Greek ode
  9. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  10. cacophonic
    having an unpleasant sound
  11. cadence
    the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  12. caesura
    a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
  13. caudal
    constituting or relating to a tail
  14. chiasmus
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
  15. choral ode
    ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama
  16. clerihew
    a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets
  17. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  18. crepuscular
    like or relating to twilight; dim
  19. dactyl
    metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
    DUM de de DUM de de
  20. dactylic
    of or consisting of dactyls
  21. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  22. elegiac stanza
    a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme
  23. enjambment
    continuation from one line of verse into the next line
  24. envoy
    a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
  25. euphony
    any pleasing and harmonious sounds
  26. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  27. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  28. heroic couplet
    a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style
  29. heterodyne
    of or relating to the beat produced by heterodyning two oscillations
  30. hexameter
    a verse line having six metrical feet
  31. iamb
    a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
  32. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  33. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  34. metonymy
    substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
  35. metrical
    relating to the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
  36. metrics
    the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  37. morpheme
    the smallest meaningful language unit
  38. morphophoneme
    (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
  39. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  40. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
    aBOUT aBOUT aBOUT aBOUT aBOUT a BOAT a BOAT a BOAT a BOAT a BOAT
    Iambic pentameter - A line pattern made up of five syllable pairs with the first syllable unstressed.
  41. phoneme
    a distinct speech sound in a particular language
  42. poesy
    literature in metrical form
  43. predicate
    the constituent of a sentence containing the verb
  44. putative
    purported
  45. quatrain
    a stanza of four lines
  46. rebus
    a puzzle consisting of pictures representing words
  47. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  48. rhyme royal
    a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter
  49. rondeau
    a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes
  50. Sapphic
    a meter used by Sappho and named after her
    four-line stanzas whose fist three lines are
    Heard - in our hard English - as heartbeats
    Then, in one more touch of a final short line,
    Tenderly ending.
  51. scansion
    analysis of verse into metrical patterns
  52. scheme
    a group of independent but interrelated elements
  53. sestet
    a group of six lines of verse
  54. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  55. Spenserian stanza
    a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c
  56. spondee
    a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
  57. sprung rhythm
    a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech
  58. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  59. strophe
    one section of a lyric poem or choral ode
  60. syllabic
    of or relating to syllables
  61. syntax
    the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  62. tanka
    a Japanese verse form of 5 lines with 5 or 7 syllables
  63. tercet
    a rhythmic group of three lines of verse
  64. terza rima
    a verse form with tercets having an interlaced rhyme scheme
  65. tetrameter
    a verse line having four stressed feet
  66. tetrameter
    a verse line having four stressed feet
  67. trochee
    a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
  68. trope
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  69. truncation
    the act of cutting short
  70. verse
    literature in metrical form
  71. zeugma
    rhetorical use of a word to govern two or more words
  72. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
Created on Wed Apr 03 16:08:28 EDT 2013 (updated Mon May 06 09:48:15 EDT 2013)

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