Basic Poetry Flashcards

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Form

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Physical structure (lines, rhythm, repetition)

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Acrostic poetry

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First letter in each line spells some thing

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Feet/foot

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Basic repeated sequins, composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables

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4
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Iambic foot

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Unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable
“des-TROY, ins-PIRE“

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Anapestic foot

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Two unstressed syllables, followed by one stressed syllable
Inter-VENE, under-STAND

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Dactylic foot

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Stressed syllable, followed by two unstressed syllables
MERR-ily, FEL-lowship

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Trochaic foot

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Two syllables, the first stressed, and the second is unstressed
TOP-sy, HIGH-way

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Iambic Pentameter

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Five unaccented/accented feet per line, commonly used by Shakespeare.

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Meter

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Organization of words, so they have a rhythm

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Syllabic meter

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A general counting of syllables per line

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Accentual

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A counting of accents only per line

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12
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Accentual syllabic

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A counting of syllables and accents

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13
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Quantitative

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Measures duration of words, measured as short or long syllables

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14
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Rhyming

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Repetition of syllables typically at the end of the line

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15
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Eye/visual rhymes

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Flood + wood

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16
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End rhyme

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Crocodile + Nile

17
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Feminine/slant rhyme

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Dicing + enticing

18
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Identical rhyme

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Me + me

19
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Internal rhyme

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I went to TOWN to buy a GOWN

20
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Masculine rhyme

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Hells/bells

21
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Mono rhyme

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The of the use of only one rhyme in a stanza

22
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Alliteration/head rhyme

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The careful cat burglar crept through the corridor

23
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Assonance

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Repetition of stressed vowel sounds within words with different and consonants (quite like)

24
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Consonance

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Repetition of identical, or similar confidence, it’s related to alliteration

25
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Dimeter

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Dice
Two beats or stressed syllables per verse

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Trimeter

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Triangle
Three beats or stressed syllables per verse

27
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Tetrameter

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For beats or stressed syllables per verse

28
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Pentameter

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Pentagon
Five beats or stressed syllables per verse

29
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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter