CW Quiz 2

Persona Poem

a fictional, myth, historic, or other figure speaks; the poem's speaker is clearly someone other than the poet

Archetype

a general or universal story, setting, character-type or symbol that recurs in many cultures and eras. (ex. a hero defeating a stronger enemy)

Tone

attitudes of the speaker and poet toward the subject matter, conveyed by word choice and syntax

Irony

discrepancy between what is said and what is meant

Negative capability

(John Keats), poet's capacity of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason

Syllable-Stress meter

lines determined by a number of stressed and unstressed syllables

Metrical foot

basic unit of rhythm in metrical poetry

Iamb

1 unstressed, 1 stressed

Trochee

1 stressed, 1 unstressed

Spondee

2 stressed

Pyrrhic

2 unstressed

Anapest

2 unstressed, 1 stressed

Dactyl

1 stressed, 2 unstressed

Dimeter

2 feet

Trimeter

3 feet

Tetrameter

4 feet

Pentameter

5 feet

Hexameter

6 feet

Metrical substitution

replacing a foot of the dominant meter with a different type of foot (ex. spondee in place of an iamb)

Free verse

poem in which length and structure of the lines is not determined by the meter; other elements create tension and emphasis

Anaphora

repeated phrase at the start of lines

Drag

stressed syllables at the beginning of a line

Advance

stressed syllables at the end of a line

Balance

stressed syllables distributed evenly through a line

Slant rhyme

rhyme that is not exact, either in sound or rhythm

Alliteration

repeated consonant sounds at the start of words

Consonance

repeated consonant sounds within words

Assonance

repeated vowel sounds