Defintions

Question 1

Abecedarian

Answer 1

Old poetic form that reproduces (uses all) letters of the alphabet in the opening line. (Or throughout the poem. Includes alphabetic organization)

Question 2

Analogy

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comparing two things like either an object or an idea of something. Using two words that can have similar meaning to it if used in a sentence

Question 3

Ballad/Ballad Stanza

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A poem that was originally sung.

Question 4

Blank verse

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Written in standard English (commonly spoken) with unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Question 5

Couplet

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Couplet refers to two consecutive verses that are linked by meter and rhyme.

Question 6

Conceit

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From the Latin term for “concept,” a poetic conceit is an oftern unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more intellectual than sensual

Question 7

Diction

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Refers to specific choice of words. Can be formal or informal, depending on dignity, impersonal/personal, etc. Tone is often determined by diction.

Question 8

Dramatic poetry

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A written work in poetic form, with an imaginary speaker speaking to an imaginary audience, that both tells a story and connects to readers through emotions or actions

Question 9

Epithets

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adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality of a person or thing mentioned. This is probably a word we will look at in class often as we try to identify characters in poems, whether it be living or nonliving. We can read those phrases to see what role it plays or how it is perceived in the poem

Question 10

Free verse

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A form of poetry that doesn’t always follow the traditional views of writing. Either they have no rhythm or just have a regular meter.

Question 11

Golden shovel

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A poem or subgenre that ends words of each line with at least one line from another poem/lyric by a different author

Question 12

Haiku

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A form of poem that has originated from Japan. Haikus, unlike the traditional English poetry, do not rely on the same spiritual assumptions/worldviews. Haikus reflect the sense of human beings or something natural. Haikus use observation and imagery. They are written in a 5-7-5 pattern

Question 13

Hexameter

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A line of verse containing six metrical feet.

Metrical feet: The basic rhythm of a verse in poetry

Question 14

Iambic Pentameter

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a rhythmic pattern in poetry that consists of ten syllables, with stress on every other syllable

Question 15

Image/Imagery

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Writing in a way that helps the the reader experience the poem in a more full way by describing senses (sight, sounds, scent, taste, and touch)

Question 16

Limerick

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humorous poem consisting of 5 lines with an aabba rhyming format. The first, second, and fifth lines have 3 feet while the third and fourth have 2 feet.

Question 17

Lyric Poetry

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song-like form of poetry usually written in 1st person that expresses the writer’s emotions often through rhyme

Question 18

Meter

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The rhythm of the poem, and what parts of the poem are stressed

Question 19

Narrative poetry

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form of poem used to tell a story. Uses narrator voice and sometimes character voices too. This addresses a wide variety of poetry

Question 20

Octave

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set of 8 lines (a stanza or the first 8 lines of a sonnet) with an ABBAABBA rhyming pattern

Question 21

Palindrome

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word or set of words that can be read the same from the front or back.

Question 22

Quatrain

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It’s a poem you complete by using four lines.The pattern is ABAB

Question 23

Rhyme

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The similarity of sound at the end of a word, usually used at the end of a line of poetry

Question 24

Sestet

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prom that consist of 6 lines. Either to form a stanza or it’s just a whole poem.

Question 25

Sestina

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A poem that has six stanzas, each stanza having six lines and the seventh stanza having 3 lines

Question 26

Setting

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Describes the time and place of a poem.

Question 27

Simile

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A Device commonly used in poetry that compares one thing to another, typically using the words “like” or “as”.

Question 28

Sonnet

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it’s a fourteen lined verse poem. Then, in each line there are about 10 syllables

Question 29

Speaker

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Someone who is the voice of a poem. The spoken word that creates the poem

Question 30

Stanza

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A group of lines that form that are used to divide and break up a poem, marking it into different sections

Question 31

Terza Rima

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It has a rhyming pattern of aba, bcb, cdc, ded. There iss no limit to the amount of lines there is and is an arrangement of triplets

Question 32

Tetrameter

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Consist of eight syllabus in each line. Readers have to find how many syllables they can find in each line to define if it is a tetrameter. The sounding sounds like “da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM”

Question 33

Villanelle

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It’s a nineteen-line poem with five tercets and a quatrain with a rhyming pattern of aba-aba-aba-aba-aba-abaa used for pastoral poetry

Question 34

Verbal irony

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When you say the opposite of what you mean

Question 35

Situational Irony

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When the opposite of what is expected happens

Question 36

Antithesis

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person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else