Poetry Terms

A pair of lines in poetry with the same meter, and they rhyme

• prologue

• couplet

• Iambic Pentameter

• sonnet

The contrast between reality, and what seems to be real; the audience has info the characters don't have

• oxymoron

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

A pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable; five times per line; rhythm of your heart

• iambic pentameter

• couplet

• sonnet

• soliloquy

a long speech said by one character

• prologue

• oxymoron

• monologue

• soliloquy

a figure of speech where elements appear to be contradictory, ex. jumbo shrimp, organized mess, living dead

• sonnet

• prologue

• dramatic irony

• oxymoron

An opening to a story that establishes the background with context and details

• soliloquy

• prologue

• tragedy

• monologue

fourteen line poem, written in iambic pentameter, and the last two lines are a rhyming couplet

• monologue

• oxymoron

• prologue

• sonnet

the contrast between what a reader expects and what actually happens

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

a long speech where one character is speaking to the audience to reveal what they are thinking or feeling

• monologue

• oxymoron

• sonnet

• soliloquy

a type of play where people die at the end

• tragedy

• oxymoron

• sonnet

• soliloquy