Twelfth Night Language Terms ONLY

The process or act of finding and marking meter and accent in poetry

Writing that is not poetry or verse; composed in sentences and paragraphs

tetrameter is:

The following is an example of:-----“The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry”

A section of development in a poem which corresponds to a prose paragraph

Iambic pentameter is:

Two syllables; there are five of these per line in a pentameter poem

Stress or emphasis placed on some syllables over others

This form of irony occurs when the audience possesses knowledge that characters do not

A two syllable foot accented stressed/unstressed

The organization of words’ accents into a pattern.

Three quatrains and a couplet follow with a rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

A synonym for poetry; written in lines and stanzas.

A group of four lines in a poem

The pattern of rhyme employed in a poem.

Blank verse is:

A play on words by the use of words that are alike in sound but different in meaning.

Caesura is:

Says the almost-dead Mercutio: "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man"

A two-syllable foot arranged untressed/stressed

Lauren (as in Susick) is a_____________

A two-syllable foot accented with strong, equal stress on both syllables like TICK-TOCK

A unit of development in poetry, like the prose paragraph

What is the metrical pattern of these lines?

A heroic couplet is: