Literature exam (Poetry Terms)

repetition of initial consonant sounds within a tight group of words

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Anapest

The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat 

• Alliteration

• Anapest

• Allusion

• Anaphora

the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of each line

• Alliteration

• Anapest

• Allusion

• Anaphora

a metrical foot containing two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. 

• Alliteration

• Anapest

• Allusion

• Anaphora

the repetition of vowel sounds within a tight group of words. 

• Couplet

• Assonance

• Enjambment

• Caesura

It consists of two lines. Typically, those two lines will have the same meter or rhyme.

• Couplet

• Assonance

• Enjambment

• Caesura

The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next. You can spot this when you notice a lack of punctuation at the end of a line

• Couplet

• Assonance

• Enjambment

• Caesura

a short verse or quote that appears at the start of a poem, book or chapter, after the title.

• lamb

• lambic pentameter

• foot

• epigraph

It consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

• lamb

• lambic pentameter

• foot

• epigraph

A basic unit of measurement in poetry. It usually consists of two or three syllables.

• lamb

• lambic pentameter

• foot

• epigraph