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English 9 Unit: Poetry Flashcards

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Poetry that uses techniques of drama, specifically dialog

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Dramatic

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A type of poem in which the first letter of each line spells something

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Acrostic

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Poetry that has shape

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Concrete

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Poetry that tells of heroes; a long naritave poem

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Epic

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Poetry that expresses thoughts, observations or feelings of a single speaker

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Lyric

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Poetry that tells a story

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Narrative

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14 lines of iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

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A sonnet organized by 3 quatrains and a couplet usually with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg

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English/Shakespearean

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A sonnet organized by octave followed by a sestet usually with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde

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Italian/Petrarchan

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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A type of reference

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Allusion

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Word choice

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Diction

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Poetry without rhyme or meter

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Free verse

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A word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning

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Homophone

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A figure of speech that contains an implied comparison, it does not is “like” or “as”

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Metaphor

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A metaphor that continues to be developed throughout a literary work such as an entire story of poem

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Extended Metaphor

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Regular rhythmic pattern; the “ beat “ of a poem

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Meter

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Giving human characteristics to something not human

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Personification

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A blend of two words and their meanings

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Portmanteau

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A comparison using like or as

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A formal division of lines in a poem

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The act of marking a poem’s meter

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Words rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry

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Words rhyme within the same line of poetry

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Words are not exact rhyme but a close match

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Approximate

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The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

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Rhyme scheme

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A stanza of eight lines

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A stanza of six lines of poetry

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A stanza of four lines

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A set of two lines of poetry that usually rhymes

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The point at which a poems tone changes

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Writing with meter; a line of poetry

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To put side by side for the purpose of comparison

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Paleness

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Curled around

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Twisting; turning

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Noisy commotion

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Strange; unusual

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Tricking; charming

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Rest; relief

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Deserted

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Pale

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Made a jolly, chuckling sound

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Put off until a future time

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Form of pus

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Based on legends, stories handed down from on generation to the next

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Great sorrows

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