Tuesday, February 16, 2010

VOEKABULARRY

TERCET: a group of 3 lines that rhyme together or are connected by rhyme with adjacent groups of 3 lines.

TRIPLET: a group of 3 lines of verse.

6 comments:

Taylor said...

TERZA RIMA: three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D; end with either a single rhyme or a couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet.

QUATRAIN: a stanza consisting of four lines.

Mel said...

sestina: a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end

envoy: a short stanza conluding a poem, such as the ballade or sestina, serving as a dedication or summarizing its main ideas

Kathryn said...

Stanza: number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc.

Heroic Couplet: a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style

sarah said...

Ode: lyric poem with serious subject often praising someone or something

Free verse/ Open form: poetry without regular patteren or rhyme usually found in 20th centurt poetry.

Taylor said...

$BALLAD STANZA$-A four-line stanza often used in ballads, rhyming in the second and fourth lines and having four metrical feet in the first and third lines and three in the second and fourth.

$ITALIAN (PETRARCHAN) SONNET$-Consists of two parts, an octave (two quatrains) which describe a problem, followed by a sestet (two tercets), which gives the resolution to it.

LAH. said...

Shakepearean Sonnet: The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Also called Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet

Villanelle: A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.



SORRY MRS. MOON!! my computer has a major virus on it so i waited until this morning to get onto the school computer. I'll try and get my computer fixed asap but again I'm sorry and next time i'll let you know ahead of time, I just hope this won't count off from my grade. :/