All Poetic Terms (test 1/6/23

Question 1

Polysyndeton

Answer 1

a list or series of words, phrases, or clauses connected with the repeated use of the same conjunction. (and, or) (and this and that and that and this…)
->emphasizing certain feelings and expanding on an idea or emotion.

Question 2

Ballad

Answer 2

Traditionally a song passed down from generation to generation dramatic condensed impersonal narrative(not about one person). -
->Can also be a poem,
-> a stanza is 4 lines(quatrain) consisting of alternating 8 and 6-’ lines. Usually only the 2nd and 4th line rhymes.

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object can also be someone that is dead or an abstraction.
-> pretty much when the speaker is talking to someone or something that can’t talk back

Question 4

Blank Verse

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verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
->the most common form of verses used in modern and even Shakespearean poetry

Question 5

Concaphany

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language that is discordant, difficult to pronounce, and often used to deliberately mirror the subject matter. Words that trip over themselves, help convey a sense of confusion and chaos.
-> literally means bad sound

Question 6

Connotation

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associations and implications that go beyond the literal meaning of the word. Derived by how the word has been commonly used and how intended the word is to be used.

Question 7

Cesura

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A pause within a line of poetry contributes to the rhythm of the rhyme.

Question 8

Consonance

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a near rhyme consisting of similar consonant sounds followed by different vowel sounds.

Question 9

Couplet

Answer 9

Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.

Question 10

Diction

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A writer’s choice of words sentence structure and figurative language combined to help create meaning

Question 11

Elegy

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a mournful contemplative lyric poem was written to commemorate someone that is dead, often ending in a consolation

Question 12

End stop line

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a line that has a pause at the end, shown through a period at the end.

Question 13

Injament

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when one line ends without a pause and continues through the next line for its meaning
-> Drips down to the second line, understanding what the poet is getting at.

Question 14

Epic

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a long narrative poem told in a formal elevated style that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events that are important to a culture or nation

Question 15

Epigram

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a brief pointed and witty poem that often makes a satiric or humorous point most often written in compliance

Question 16

Heroic Couplet

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Two lines that end with Rhymed Iambic pentameter

Question 17

Euphony

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in reference to music that is pleasing to the ear
->smooth
-> opposite of cacophony

Question 18

Fixed Form

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Anything with a structured form, like a rhyme scheme.

Question 19

Metrical Foot

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the metrical unit a line of poetry is counted

Question 20

Iamb

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unstressed followed by a stressed syllable (Shakespeare) (away)

Question 21

Trochee

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stressed followed by a stressed syllable (lovely)

Question 22

Dactyl

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stressed followed by an undressed and unstressed syllable (desperate)

Question 23

Anapest

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unstressed, unstressed, stressed syllable

Question 24

Form

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is the overall structure or shape of a work that follows a previously established design (narrative, stanzas, verse)

Question 25

Free verse

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open form poetry poems are characterized by their nonconformity to established paters of meter rhyme and stanza

Question 26

Hyperbole

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a boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true.

Question 27

Iambic Pentameter

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5 iambic feet per line (reminder penta means 5) iamb is unstressed followed by stressed syllables

Question 28

Imagery

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words phrases of speech that address the senses convey sensory impressions and emotions and mood

Question 29

Lyric

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a brief poem that expresses the feelings or emotions of the poem, eulogy, ode, sonnet, ballad,

Question 30

Metaphor

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a comparison between two things without using like or as
->asserting that one thing is the other

Question 31

Extended metaphor

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a sustained comparison, where all or part of the poem consists of a series of related metaphors

Question 32

Meter

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rhythmic pattern of stresses in a poem, are determined by the type and number of feet in a line of a verse.

Question 33

Narrative poem

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a poem that tells a story. Can be short or long, simple or complex
->ballads and epics are narrative poems,

Question 34

Octave

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a stanza of 8 lines usually forming one part of a sonnet, which has 14 lines.

Question 35

Onomatopoeia

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words that express the denotation of the given sound effect

Question 36

Open form

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same thing as free verse does not conform to patterns iambs rhyme, is done by using repetition of words phrases, or grammatical structure

Question 37

Oxymoron

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a condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together, sweet sorrow, jumbo shrimp, boneless wings

Question 38

Paradox

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a statement that initially appears to be contradictory but then on closer inspection turns out to make sense.

Question 39

Parody

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A humorous imitation of another normally serious work, it can take any fixed or open form, and may also be used as a form of literary criticism to expose the defects in the work.

Question 40

Persona

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-A speaker created by a writer to tell a story or in a poem
- Not a character in the story or narrative, nor does the person necessarily directly reflected in the voice.
ex: lemony snicket

Question 41

Personification

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A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things.
ex: “the time ran away from me”

Question 42

Prosody

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The overall metrical structure of the poem
ex: Iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl

Question 43

Pun

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A play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word.
ex: orange you having fun studying :)

Question 44

Quatrain

Answer 44

4 Line stanza, any metrical pattern

Question 45

Scansion

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The process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of the line.

Question 46

Sestets

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A stanza consisting for exactly 6 lines

Question 47

Sestina

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A type of fixed form poetry with no set meter with 36 lines divided into 6 sestets and a last stanza that is 3 line envoy 6 words at the end of the sestets and all end with an envoy.

Question 48

simile

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a comparison using like or as
ex:(like, as, than, appears, seems

Question 49

sonnet

Answer 49

fourteen lines of iambic pentameter linked by an intricate rhyme scheme
-Shakespearean sonnets/English= three quatrains and ends with a couplet
-Petrarchan Sonnets/Italian Sonnets= still 14 lines, 1 octave(8) and 1 sestet(6).

Question 50

Spondee

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a type of metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables

Question 51

Stanza

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Refers to a grouping of lines set off by a space, usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme

Question 52

stress

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the emphasis or accent was given to a syllable in the pronunciation

Question 53

symbol

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a person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meanings that go beyond the definition. And often has a more abstract meaning than the literal significance

Question 54

synecdoche

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a type of metaphor in which a part of something used to signify the whole
ex: Gossip- wagging your tungue

Question 55

Tercet

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3 line stanza

Question 56

Terza rima

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an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme
ex: aba, bcb, cdc

Question 57

Understatement

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the opposite of hyperbole refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended. Usually has an ironic effect but is sometimes just used for comedic purposes.

Question 58

Villanelle

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A fixed form of poetry consisting of 19 lines divided into 6 stanzas or 5 tercets and a concluding quatrain.