LET’S GET TO KNOW FEW LITERARY TERMS

·         PROSODY is a science of verse forms, poetic metres and rhythms.

·         RHETORIC is an art of using language effectively or impressively.

·         Heroic couplet is a two line stanza having two rhyming lines in Iambic pentameter.

·         Enjambed couplets are the couplets in which the sense runs on from one couplet to another.

·         Alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a heroic couplet.

·         Terza Rima is a run on three line stanza with a fixed rhyme scheme.

·         Rhyme Royal Stanza is a seven line stanza in Iambic pentameter.

·         Ottawa Rima is an eight line stanza in Iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme scheme.

·         Spenserian stanza is a nine line stanza consisting of two quatrains in Iambic pentameter rounded off with an Alexandrine.

·         Blank verse has a metre but no rhyme.