Ch. 5 Poetry Terms Flashcards
Literature
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Rhyme (Perfect Rhyme)
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- Identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel in two or more sounds
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Slant Rhyme
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- Rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds
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Eye Rhyme
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- Word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently
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End Rhyme
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- Rhyme that occurs at the ends of corresponding lines of poetry
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Internal Rhyme
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- Rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry
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Rhyme Scheme
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- The pattern of rhyme sounds in a poem or in a stanza of poetry
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Meter
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- The regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
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Scansion
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- The process of identifying the two major features of meter in a particular poem
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Iambic Pentameter
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- Meter with 5 iambs in each line of a poem
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Verse
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- A composition written in meter
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Rhymed Verse
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- Verse having end rhyme and regular meter
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Poetic Foot
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- The specific combination of 2 or 3 stressed and or unstressed syllables that predominately repeats throughout the poem’s lines
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Blank Verse
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- Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Free Verse
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- Poetry with no distinguishable rhyme, meter, or line length
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Iambic Foot
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- Poetic foot that contains a stressed and then an unstressed syllable
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Trochaic Foot
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- Poetic foot that contains a stressed and then an unstressed syllable
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Anapestic Foot
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- Poetic foot that contains two unstressed and then one stressed syllable
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Dactylic Foot
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- Poetic foot that contains one stressed and then unstressed syllables
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Spondaic Foot
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- Poetic foot that repeats two stressed syllables
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Pyrrhic Foot
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- Poetic foot that has two unstressed syllables
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Stanzas
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- Divisions of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme and usually recognized by the number of lines they contain
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Ballad
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- A narrative poem often derived from folklore and originally intended to be sung or recited
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Refrain
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- A line or group of lines repeated throughout a poem
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Sonnet
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- A lyric poem of 14 lines
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Italian Sonnet
- Poetry whose first eight lines form another
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English Sonnet
- Poetry whose thought is usually distributed over three quatrains with a concluding couplet
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Haiku
- A 17 syllable poem about nature, composed or 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables
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Cinquain
- A poem in which the 1st line contains one, the 2nd two, 3rd three, 4th four, and the 5th one
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Shaped Poem
- A poem that rarely follows any specific stanza or verse form but its shaped in an image that supports the subject of the poem
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Verse Form
- Specific combinations of rhyme and meter
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Alliteration
- The repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Anaphora
- The repetition of initial consonant sounds
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Assonance
- The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or grammatical units
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Consonance
- The repetition of terminal consonant sounds and rarely of internal consonants
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Onomatopeia
- Words that sound like what they mean
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Parallelism
- Similarity in the structure of 2 or more phrases, clauses, or sentences
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Chiasmus
- An alternative form of parallelism that inverts the parallel structure keeping the elements of the original phrase, clause, or sentence but reversing them in the following unit
