Momometer

Literary Terms 61-80

October 5, 2015

Chatese Hampton

1. Monometer- A line of poetry that only contains one metrical foot.

Ex: Upon His Departure Hence by Robert Herrick

“Thus I

Passe by,

And die:

As one,

Unknown,

And gone.”

1. Monosyllabic foot- A foot consisting of a single accented syllable.

Ex: No, go, find, & etc.

1. Octameter- A line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet

Ex: The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

1. Octave- A group of eight lines of verse, especially the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italian form. (also called an octet.)

Ex: Take, O Take Those Lips Away By William Shakespeare

1. Onomatopoeia- The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Ex: meow, sizzle, chirp

1. Overstatement- The action of expressing or stating something too strongly

Ex: I ate a mile high ice cream cone.

1. Oxymoron- A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Ex: Civil war, bitter sweet, same difference, and etc.

1. Paradox- A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Ex: A rich man is no richer than a beggar

1. Pentameter-A line of poetry that has five strong metrical feet.

Ex: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

1. Personification- The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Ex: She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.

1. Phonetic intensive- a word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests its meaning. As differentiated from onomatopoetic words, the meanings of phonetic intensives do not refer to sounds.

Ex: St-strength: Strength, Strong, Sturdy, Stamina

1. Prose- written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

Ex: Any writing that is not poetry.

1. Quatrain- A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

Ex: ABAB

1. Refrain- a line or group of lines repeated at the end of a couplet.

Ex: Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

1. Rhetorical pause- A natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into the reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax

Ex:

1. Rhetorical poetry- Poetry using artificially eloquent language, that is, language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience

Ex:

1. Rhythm- expressed through stressed and unstressed syllables

Ex: Iamb, Trochee, Spondee, Dactyl, and Anapest

1. Rhyme- correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words.

Ex: Balloon & moon, meet & feet.

1. Rhyme Scheme- the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

Ex: ababcdcd

1. Run-on Line- a line of poetry in which the punctuation is not contained within the line, and the line breaks without being punctuated. (Enjambment)

Ex: The Winter’s Tale by William Shakepeare

“I am not prone to weeping, as our sex

Commonly are; the want of which vain dew

Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have

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