
Each unit of stress and unstressed syllables is called a 'Foot'. Compositions written in meter are said to be in verse.
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Quatrain 4-line stanza Couplet 2-line stanza Narrative Poetry Poems that tell a story using character's words, thoughts, and actions Lyric Poetry Poems in stanzas which express ideas, objects, or situations in personal and emotional language Free Verse Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhyme and meter (Uses other devices to create rhythm) Parallelism Related ideas written in the same grammatical pattern Cataloguing Lists of people, things, or attributes for poetic effect Repetition Repeated words and phrases Epitaph A brief literary piece commemorating someone who has died Tone An expression of the writer's attitude toward his subject Figurative Language Metaphors, similes, personification-evocative language Personification Giving objects, animals or ideas human characteristics Connotation The emotional response evoked by word or words Rhyme Scheme The pattern of identical (or slant) rhyming sounds in a poem Rhythm The flow of sound created by patterns used to emphasize ideas and create mood and musicality in poetry Meter A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress. Traditional Poems with fixed conventions (Sonnet, ballad, haiku, epic, ode, etc.) Organic Poems with more flexible forms (Free verse, epitaph etc.) Stanzas A group of lines in a poem that develop a separate image, idea or example of figurative language.


Who wrote 'Faith is a Fine Invention'? Emily Dickinson Who wrote 'I Never Saw a Moor'? Emily Dickinson Who wrote 'I Took my Power in my Hand'? Emily Dickinson Who wrote 'This is my Letter to the World'? Emily Dickinson Who wrote 'A Psalm of Life'? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Who wrote 'The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls'? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Who wrote 'O Captain my Captain'? Walt Whitman Who wrote 'When I heard the Learned Astronomer'? Walt Whitman Who wrote 'I Hear America Singing'? Walt Whitman Who wrote 'A Noiseless, Patient Spider'? Walt Whitman Who wrote 'Chicago'? Carl Sandburg Who wrote 'Grass'? Carl Sandburg Who wrote 'Life's Tragedy'? Paul Laurence Dunbar Who wrote 'Sophistication'? Sherwood Anderson Who are the main characters of Sophistication? George and Helen (Professor and Mother Briefly Mentioned) Poetic Structures The way words are arranging in lines, lines in stanzas, and sounds into rhythm and rhyme.
