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Poetry Terms

Blank verse: Unrhymed lines of poetry usually in iambic pentameter Blank verse: Unrhymed lines of poetry usually in iambic pentameter. Plenty of modern poetry is written in blank verse.

Couplets: A pair of rhyming lines in a poem often set off from the rest of the poem. Shakespeare’s sonnets all end in couplets.

Diction 1)Word choice. 2) The author’s choice of words. An author has the option of choosing any word from our language, why does he/she choose to use certain words and not others? In order to create a certain tone.

End rhyme: Rhyming words that are at the ends of their respective lines—what we typically think of as normal rhyme.

Free Verse: Poetry with no set meter (rhythm) or rhyme scheme.

Internal rhyme: A rhyme that occurs within one line such as “He’s King of the Swing.”

Meter: The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem.

Quatrain: A four-line stanza.

Sonnet: A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter Sonnet: A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter. Different kinds of sonnets have different rhyme schemes. The most notable are Shakespeare’s Sonnets which employ the abab,cdcd,efef,gg rhyme scheme.