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Composition of poetry Flashcards

1
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Graphical appearence

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Differs from prose just by looking at it

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Acoustic effects

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Affects reader’s mind, mood

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Lines

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Basic rhytmical unit

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Stanza

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main unit of poetry made up from lines

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5
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Cantos

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Section of long narrative poems

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Atemporality

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Time isn’t important

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7
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Plotlesness

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Absence of plot

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8
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Absence of narrators

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Only narrator is the poet

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9
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Absence of dialogue

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Monologue can be sometimes used

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10
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Figurative language

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Connotative meaning of the word

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Occurence of sound effects

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rhythm -> metrical realization
rhyme -> different types

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Rhythm

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-metrical realization -> longer syllables are stressed, shorter unstressed
-beat, pace and flow of the poem
-pattern of U (unstressed) and _ (stressed) syllables is known as metre (metrical pattern, foot, norm)

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Metrical patterns

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1. iamb -> most used in English
U followed by _
2. trochee
_ followed by U
3. dactyl
_ followed by UU
4. anapaest
UU followed by _
5. spondee -> rare
_ followed by _

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Iambic

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-most popular - used by W. Shakespeare
-copies sound of common speech
-rising intonation

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Trochaic

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-copies sound of common speech
-falling intonation

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16
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Number of feet in a line

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  1. MONOMETER - 1 metrical foot
  2. DIMETER - 2 metrical feet
  3. TRIMETER - 3 metrical feet
  4. TETRAMETER - 4 metrical feet
  5. PENTAMETER - 5 metrical feet
  6. HEXAMETER - 6 metrical feet
  7. HEPTAMETER - 7 metrical feet
  8. OCTAMETER - 8 metrical feet

trochaic tetrameter, iambic pentameter -> most common in English poetry

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Stanza

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  • 2-12 lines
    -no fixed number of lines/stanzas
18
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Couplet

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stanza
-2 lines that rhyme, express some complex idea, thought

19
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Heroic couplet

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stanza
-2 lines stanza written in iambic pentameter
-was popular in English poetry for centuries

20
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Tercet

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stanza
-3 line stanza
-AAA
-ABA
-Haiku -> type of tercet

21
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Quatrain

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stanza
-4 lines

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Quincet

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stanza
-5 lines

23
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Sestet

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stanza
-6 lines

24
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Septet

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stanza
-7 lines

25
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Rhyme

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-rhyme doesn’t have to be present in a piece of poetry

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Perfect rhyme

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-2 words rhyme when stressed vowels and all succeding sounds are identical

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Imperfect rhyme

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-2 words that rhyme only in part
-one group of rhymes is stressed while the other is not

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Masculine rhyme

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-words that rhyme consist of only one syllable

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Feminine rhyme

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-2 words consisting of 2 syllables rhyme

30
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End rhyme

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-rhymes occur at the end of a line

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Internal rhyme

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-2 words rhyme within a line

32
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Initial rhyme

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-alliteration

33
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Blank verse

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-poetry that doesn’t rhyme

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