vocabulary

Alliteration
Definiton - The
occurrence of the same letter or sound at the
beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Example-
Consonance

Definition-agreement or compatibility between opinions or

actions

Example: The furrow followed free.

Assonance
Definition-in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or
diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to
each other for the echo to be discernible

Examples -The light of the fire is a sight.

Free Verse
Definition-poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

Examples.
Rhyme
Definition-a short poem in which the sound of the word or
syllable at the end of each line corresponds with that at the
end of another.
Rhythm
Definition- a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or
sound.
Rhyme Scheme
Definition-is the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of
each verse or line in poetry.
Iamb
Definition-a metrical foot consisting of one short (or
unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed)
syllable
Trochee
Definition-a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable
followed by one short or unstressed syllable.
Spondee
Definition-a foot consisting of two long (or stressed)
syllables.
Anapest
Definition-a metrical foot consisting of two short or
unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed
syllable.
Dactyl
Definition-a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable
followed by two unstressed syllables or one long syllable
followed by two short syllables.
Meter
Definition- is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a
verse, or within the lines of a poem
Dimeter
definition-Two feet line. Ex: trochaic dimeter

Workers ear it,

Spendthrifts burn it

Bankers lend it,

Women spend it,

Forgers fake it,

I could use it.

 Trimeter
definition-a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet.

Iambic trimeter:

The idle life I lead

Is like a pleasant sleep,

Wherein I rest and head

The dreams that by me sweet

 Tetrameter
Definition-a verse of four measures

Iambic tetrameter:

The hills, the meadows, and the lakes,

Enchant not for their own sweet sakes.

They cannot know, they cannot care

To know that they are thought so fair

 Pentameter
Definition-a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin
verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable.

Iambic pentameter:

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,

With loads of learned lumber in his head

Hexameter
Definition-a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, especially of six dactyls.

Sometimes called an alexandrine:

If hunger, proverbs say, allures the wolf from wood,

Much more the bird must dare a dash at something good.

 Heptameter
Definition-a line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet.

Iambic heptameter:

It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day,

The score stood four to six with but an inning left to play:
Octameter
Definition-a line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet.

Trochaic octometer:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary