English Homework

1. unrhymed Iambic Pentameter is used for the treatment of serious themes by many great poets
7. an eight-line stanza often used to emphasize the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet
9. language that is reserved for poetry only
11. a truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction
13. a court poet or official state poet
14. a popular meter consisting of five iambic feet
15. the most common type of rhythm in English verse, consists of an unaccented syllable
17. unaccented syllables followed by an accented one
20. an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one
21. an implied comparison in which one thing is described in the terms of another
22. a six-line poem which follows an eight-line division to clarify the preceding octave
25. the regular recurrence of sounds

2. a reference to mythology,history or a literary work
3. one accented syllable
4. the pattern in a line of poetry, consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables
5. an accented syllable followed by unaccented ones
6. accented syllables
8. the stressing of certain syllables or words
10. saying the opposite of what is meant
12. struggle between two opposing forces
16. the measured rhythm of a poem
18. the arrangement of events in a story or play
19. a secondary plot woven into the main plot
23. the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry
24. the similarity of sound between 2 words