ENG100H1 Study Guide - Trochaic Tetrameter, Tetrameter, Narrative Poetry
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Poetry - literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Verse - writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. Addressee person who poem is addressed to. Shaped poem typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect. Elegy - a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. Meter basic rhythmic structure of a verse/lines in verse. Scansion marking the stresses in the poem and working out a meter. Pentameter - line of verse containing five metrical feet. Caesura break between words within a metrical foot. Alliteration same letter/sound at beginning of adjacent/closely connected words. Masculine ending is term used in prosody, the study of verse form. It refers to a line ending in a stressed syllable. Its opposite is feminine ending, which describes a line ending in a stressless syllable.
