apr. 9, 2013

Question 1

masculine rhyme

Answer 1

a rhyme that matches only one syllable, usually at the end of respective lines. Often the final syllable is stressed.

Question 2

feminine rhyme

Answer 2

a rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines, in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed.

Question 3

eye rhyme

Answer 3

An eye rhyme, also called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme, is a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently and have come into general use through “poetic license”

Question 4

rhythm

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n poetry, the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound

Question 5

iambic pentameter

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The term describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called “feet”. The word “iambic” describes the type of foot that is used (in English, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable). The word “pentameter” indicates that a line has five of these “feet.”

Question 6

slack sylables

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n unstressed syllable. foot, the unit of rhythm in poetry

Question 7

caesura

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complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition

Question 8

end stopped v. run on line

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which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next

Question 9

prosody

Answer 9

the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech

Question 10

iambic meter

Answer 10

foot of iambic pentameter

Question 11

commonly used names

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john

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open form v. closed form

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free form and

Question 13

epic

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long poem generally secribing a hero

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blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 15

couplet

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2 lines in a poem

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heroic couplet

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refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines.

Question 17

parallel v. antithesis

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using the same pattern of words to show that two or more idea

Question 18

tercet

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A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem

Question 19

terza rhyme

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a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three- line rhyme scheme

Question 20

quatrian

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a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines

Question 21

acrostic

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simple poem

Question 22

sonnet

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t is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.

Question 23

epigram

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a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statemen

Question 24

limerick

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a short, humorous, often ribald or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme

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open form free verse

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realively the same

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psalms

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songs

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allegory

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device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts

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myth

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legend

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parody

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current use, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target,

Question 30

ellegy

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a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song

Question 31

3 steps to reading a poem

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1)
2)
3)

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3 varieties of poems

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1)
2)
3)

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lyric

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express personal or emotional feelings and is traditionally the home of the present tense.

Question 34

naritive poetry

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tells a story

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didactic

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philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art

Question 36

tone

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the way the poems sound

Question 37

persona

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narrator

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ironic point of view

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point of view where the author

Question 39

diction
concrete
abstract

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reason for writng
solid
vague

Question 40

allusion

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a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or a representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art

Question 41

valgate

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late 4th-century Latin translation of the Bible.

Question 42

colloquial

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is when you make a poem and it has inccorect words that we use today for exampl

Question 43

formal english

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correct english

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dialect

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speech in a peom

Question 45

denotation v. conotation

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Denotation refers to the literal meaning of a word, the “dictionary definition.”¨ For example, if you look up the word snake in a dictionary, you will discover that one of its denotative meanings is “any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles¡Khaving a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions.”
Connotation, on the other hand, refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word. The connotative meanings of a word exist together with the denotative meanings. The connotations for the word snake could include evil or danger.

Question 46

imagery

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what the poem makes u imagine

Question 47

simile

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comparason using like or as

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metaphor

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comparison not using like or as

Question 49

implied metaphor

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metaphor that compares two things without being obvious

Question 50

extended metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines

Question 51

mixed metaphor

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A mixed metaphor is one that leaps from one identification to a second identification inconsistent with the first

Question 52

epigrapg

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a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.

Question 53

apostrophe

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An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing

Question 54

overstatement v. understatement

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overstatement takes something too far

understatemetn doesnt go far enough

Question 55

metonymy

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a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept

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synecdoche

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is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole of something, or vice-versa

Question 57

transferred ephithet

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a type of metaphorical language in which a modifier is applied to something that it doesn’t literally

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paradox

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s an argument that produces an inconsistency

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pun

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short joke

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pesronificatin

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giving human attributes to a innanimate object

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ballad

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s a form of verse, often a narrative set to music

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euphony v. cacophany

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s

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alliteration v. assonance

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the repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts

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rime

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rhyme

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exact rime v. slant rime

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slant rhyme has a offset rule

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consonance

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poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession

Question 67

end rime

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rhyme at the end of a poem

Question 68

internal rime

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rhyme in a specific order