1. Note Taking Format TERM NOTES MY TRANSLATION Poetry Unit Literary Term
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2. TERM: Rhyme The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
There are several types of rhyme:
Exact Rhyme
Slant Rhyme
End Rhyme
Internal Rhyme

3. TERM: Exact Rhyme vs. Slant Rhyme
Exact: The repetition of words that end with the same vowel and consonant sounds, as in love and dove.
Slant: The repetition of words that end with similar sounds but do not rhyme perfectly, as in prove and glove.

4. TERM: Internal Rhyme vs. End Rhyme
Internal: The rhyming of words within a line
EXAMPLE:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
--Edgar Allen Poe
End: The rhyming of words at the ends of lines
While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle

5. TERM: Rhyme Scheme
A regular pattern of end rhymes in a poem or stanza, in which a letter is assigned to each set of rhyming sounds.
EXAMPLE: Lewis Carroll opens “Jabberwocky” with the rhyme scheme abab:
‘Twas brillig, and slithy toves a
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; b
All mimsy were the borogroves, a
And the mome raths outgrabe b

6. TERM: Meter
The rhythmical pattern in a line of poetry that results from the arrangement of stressed (/) and unstressed (U) syllables.
The stress (or emphasis) goes on the syllable that is accented in natural speech.
Each meter is named based on its length and pattern measured by metrical feet.
Foot
Length
Iamb ( U / )
Anapest ( U U / )
Trochee ( / U)
Dactyl (/ U U)
Spondee ( / / )
Iambic
Anapestic
Trochaic
Dactylic
Spondaic
One 
Two 
Three 
Four 
Five 
Six 
Seven 
Eight 
Monometer
Dimeter
Trimeter
Tetrameter
Pentameter
Hexameter
Heptameter
Octameter

7. Iambic Pentameter = A metric line of poetry containing 5 iambic feet.
Foot: the smallest repeated pattern of stressed (/) and unstressed (U) syllables in a poetic line.
Iamb: a foot in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
Meter of a Verse: is measured by counting and identifying the number of feet and type of feet composing it.
Pentameter: five feet (penta meaning five)
Iambic Pentameter = A metric line of poetry containing 5 iambic feet.
U /

8. TERM: Iambic Pentameter
Poetry in which each line contains five iambic feet.
An iamb consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ( U / )

9. Examples of Iambic pentameter
“But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?”
“But, SOFT! What LIGHT through YONder WINdow BREAKS?”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”
U / U / U / U / U /

10. TERM: Iambic Pentameter
Iambic = Describes an iamb: unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ( U / )
Penta = five
Meter = number and pattern of feet
“Iambic Pentameter” = five iambic feet or five sets of ( U / )
This means a total of ten syllables