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Final Exam Flashcards

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“The Unknown Citizen”

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W.H. Auden

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“Sestina”

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Elizabeth Bishop

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“How Do I Love Thee”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“My Last Duchess”

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Robert Browning

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“I Have Not Lingered in European Monasteries”

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Leonard Cohen

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“Litany”

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Billy Collins

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“anyone lived in a pretty how town”

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e. e. cummings

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“The Sun Rising”

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John Donne

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“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

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T.S. Eliot

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“Design”

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Robert Frost

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“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat”

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Thomas Gray

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“To an Athlete Dying Young”

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A.E. Houseman

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“Birmingham Sunday”

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Langston Hughes

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“Ballad of Birmingham”

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Dudley Randall

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“Sonnet to Science”

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Edgar Allan Poe

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“To His Coy Mistress”

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Andrew Marvel

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“I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed”

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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“The Nymph’s Reply”

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Walter Raleigh

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“You All Know the Story of the Other Woman”

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Anne Sexton

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“Ode to the West Wind”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Epithalamion”

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Edmund Spenser

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“13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

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Wallace Stevens

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“Ulysses”

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”

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Dylan Thomas

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“A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind”

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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Apostrophe

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direct address to the audience

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Polysyndeton

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extra/unnecessary words

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Asyndeton

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absence of connector word(s)

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Personification

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attributing a non-human entity with human traits

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Metonymy

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substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant (e.g., saying candle light to mean nighttime)

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Anaphora

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repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses/sections

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Polyptoton

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repetition of words deriving from the same root (e.g., I love thee with a love)

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Catalogue

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listing

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Paronomasia

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pun (fancy way)

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Alliteration

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repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of words

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Turn/Volta

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occurrence, typically around the ninth line of a sonnet, of a sudden change of tone/topic… typically presents a resolution to the problem presented in the first nine lines

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End-Stopped

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a line in verse which ends with punctuation, showing the end of a phrase or sentence. Does not continue to the next line

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Enjambment

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overflow of a line of poetry into the next line

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Oxymoron

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phrase containing two contradicting terms (e.g., jumbo shrimp)

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Neologism

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word that has been coined by the author, usually to fit the context. (e.g., Percy Bysshe Shelley using the word “skiey” in “Ode to the West Wind”

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Dirge

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a funeral song/poem

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Syntactic Deviation

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when the syntax of a phrase/sentence/poem deviates typical grammar structure on purpose, for instance, syntactic inversion

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Synesthaesia

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combination of senses

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Antithesis

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when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect (e.g., “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”)

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Epanalepsis

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repetition of initial part of a clause at the end of the clause (e.g., “life piled upon life”)

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Ellipsis

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omission of superfluous/unnecessary words (e.g., “I mine”)

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Synecdoche

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use of a part to identify a whole (e.g., “nice wheels” = “nice car”)

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Anadiplosis

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repetition of last word of the preceding sentence

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Parallellism

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listing of two or more items to show contrast/parallel between them (e.g., “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”)

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Anacoluthon

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sentence/construction where grammatical structure is absent or jumbled

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One of the oldest forms of poetry; closely related to folk song; has a narrative/tells a story; typically contains stock phrases/characters; dramatic, condensed, impersonal

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The Ballad

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14 lines, iambic pentameter; two variations: Petrarchan and English. There is typically a volta/turn near the end.

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The Sonnet

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No fixed length, but typically not too long; meant to be a lyric or song; typically written in celebration or praise of something (encomiastic); three (main) variations: Pindaric, Horatian, Irregular.

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The Ode

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Not defined by form, but by character; there is a speaker and an implied audience; it is typically best to figure out the character (speaker) based on what they /don’t/ say.

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Dramatic Monologue

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Very restrictive form: 19 lines, 8 of which are a refrain verse (typically 2 lines); these refrain lines build power throughout the poem, and their meaning usually changes by the end of the poem

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The Villanelle

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Blends critical attitude with wit, with the purpose of teaching a lesson and/or improving humanity; typically concerned with human vice and vanity; parody is a subset of this poetic form.

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Satire

57
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u / ; u / ; u /

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Iamb

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/ u ; / u ; / u

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Trochee

59
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u u / ; u u / ; u u /

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Anapest

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/ u u ; / u u ; / u u

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Dactyl

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u u ; u u ; u u

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Pyrrhic

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/ / ; / / ; / /

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Spondee

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