Literary terms and examples

1. Iambic – a foot of poetry that follows
the pattern of an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable
Tetrameter – a line written in
tetrameter (tetra = 4) will have four
feet, or eight syllables.

2.  exist
 belong
 running
 predict
 flower
 away

3. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
The only news I know
Is bulletins all day
From Immortality.
I wandered, lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er dales and hills
When, all at once, I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils.

4.  A part of poetry defined as a complete thought
written in two lines that end with similar sounds.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
a gash, a rash and purple bumps."
- Shel Silverstein
"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
- Sonnet 94, William Shakespeare