UIL Poetry Terms 1

Words with identical sounds but different meanings (e.g. raise/raze, stair/stare) are

• rime retourne

• riding rhyme

• rime riche

• compound ryme

A rarely used couplet with the first line in iambic hexameter and the second in iambic heptameter would be

• poulter's measure

• diastich

• closed couplet

• open couplet

The assignment of stress to an unstressed syllable, usually as a result of patterns of rhythm and rhyme, is known as

• scribal error

• revue

• scansion

• promotion

The literary term for a poem ostensibly about farming and the practical aspects of rustic life is

• interlude

• georgic

• alexandrine

• prelude

Relying on humor or satire, a three-line poem with five-seven-five syllable lines is a/an

• manga

• haiku

• anime

• senryu

________is a synonym for "unstressed syllable"

• slack syllable

• ictus

• volta

• scazon

A poem usually of fourteen lines and following one several sets of rhyme schemes is known as a

• elegy

• pastiche

• sonnet

• ode

A poem written to celebrate a wedding is a/an

• epithalamium

• encomium

• threnody

• coranach

A fixed nineteen-line form which employs only two rhymes and repeats two of the lines according to a set pattern which includes a scheme of rhymes and repetitions. Famous example is "Do Not Go Gentle" by Dylan Thomas.

• pastourelle

• ode

• villanelle

• caudate sonnet

An example of feminine rhyme is

• play the game/say the name

• darkling/sparkling

• whose/noose

• ceramic/Mohammed