Tuesday 10 December 2013

Poetry Terms

Ballad Stanza
- A four-line stanza in iambic meter. 
-The first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet.

Blank Verse 
Verse without rhyme, that uses lambic pentameter.

Cacophony
- A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.

Case Study 
- Something used or analyzed in order to illustrate a thesis or principle.

Catastrophe
- The "turning downward"of the plot in a classical tragedy

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