Poetry terms

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Tetrameter

And DID those FEET in ANcient TIMEWALK upon ENgland's MOUNtains GREEN?And WAS the HOly LAMB of GODOn ENgland's PLEASant PAStures SEEN?

Ex) This is one poetry:

- a line with 4 stressed words

- four metrical feet

Tanka

The age of gold --Cranach's swaggering Venusdressed in carcanetand cestus, her splendorinvading the world's black edgeCarl Brennan

Ex) This is one tanka by Carl Brennan

1&3 line- 5 syllables 2,4 &5 line- 7 syllables

- It is a Japanese poem of 5 lines

Synecdoche

Ex) Give me a hand --> the hand does not mean a real hand on your body. It means 'help'

- Whole represents a part or part represents the whole

- It is a way you explain the whole by part

Trochee

Ex) soccer, hero, pencil, and open

- It is a metrical foot you use to show two syllables with one stressed and one unstressed.