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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