Define each of the following terms:
accent
alliteration
allusion
anapestic meter
anaphora
apostrophe
approximate rhyme
assonance
ballad stanza
blank verse
cacophony
caesura
conceit
connotation
consonance
controlling metaphor
couplet
dactylic meter
denotation
dramatic monologue
elegy
end rhyme
end-stopped line
enjambment
euphony
exact rhyme
extended metaphor
feminine ending
feminine rhyme
foot
free verse
heroic couplet
hyperbole
iambic meter
iambic pentameter
internal rhyme
masculine ending
masculine rhyme
meter
metonymy
near rhyme
octave
ode
off rhyme
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
paradox
personification
Petrarchan/ Italian sonnet
poetic diction
prosody
quatrain
rhyme
rhyme scheme
rhythm
rising meter
scansion
English IV AP
Poetry Test Review
sestet
Shakespearean/ English sonnet
slant rhyme
spondee
stanza
synecdoche
syntax
tercet
tone
trochaic meter
understatement
verse
Using a(u) to indicate an unstressed syllable and a (/) to indicate a stressed syllable, scan the following lines:
to-day, the sun
dai-ly, went to
in-ter-vene, in the dark
mul-ti-ple, col-or of
true-blue
I want to in-ter-vene
He thought he kept the universe alone
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill
And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still!
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered.
Poems we read:
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130
Robert Herrick: “To the Virgins to
Make Much of Time”
Andrew Marvel: “To His Coy Mistress”
Theodore Roethke: “My Papa’s Waltz”
T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”
John Donne: “The Apparition,” “The Flea,”
“Death Be Not Proud”
Henry Reed: “Naming of Parts”
Walt Whitman: “When I heard a Learn’d
Astronomer”
Steven Wallace: “Anecdote of the Jar”
Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into that
Good Night”
William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheel
Barrow,” “This is Just to Say”
Pat Mora: “Legal Alien”
M. Nourbese Philip: “Discourse on the Logic
Of Language” (watch on YouTube)