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Poetry Terms
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12th Grade
02/12/2012

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End Stopped
Definition

A poetic line that has a pause at the end.

End-stopped lines reflect normal speech patterns and are often marked with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark

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Exact Rhyme
Definition

Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants may be different.

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Eye Rhyme
Definition

When words look alike but do not rhyme:

bough and cough, or brow and blow

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End Rhyme
Definition

The most common form of rhyme in poetry; the rhyme comes at the end of the lines

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Internal Rhyme
Definition

Places at least one of the rhymed words within the line as in:

In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud

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Feminine Rhyme
Definition

Consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables,

such as gratitude and attitude; quivering and shivering

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Masculine Rhyme
Definition

Describes the rhyming of single-syllable words such as grade and shade; or of rhyming words or more than one syllable when the same sound occurs in the final stressed syllable, as in defend and contend

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Double Rhyme
Definition

Words that have the same vowel sound in the second-to-last and last syllables.                                                                              

For example:                                                                                                                       soaring            

  adoring 

   weary

   dreary

  conviction                      

  prediction

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Off-Rhyme
Definition

A partial or imperfect rhyme

Also called approximate rhyme, half rhyme, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, slant rhyme.

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Euphony
Definition
—A harmonious succession of words or when the combination of consonants and vowels in a line or passage sound pleasing and suit the meaning of the poem.
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Cacophony
Definition

the use of words that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious sounds.

 

Example: We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will.

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Stanza
Definition

A unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem; usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme

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Couplet
Definition
Two lines of rhyming poetry
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Quatrain
Definition

a four line stanza

(Shakespearean Sonnet - 3 quatrains and couplet)

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Octave
Definition
eight line stanza
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Sestet
Definition
A six-line stanza
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tercet
Definition
three-line stanza
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