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Mid-term Flashcards

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Ballad

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a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.

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Cinquain

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any stanza of five lines.

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Epic

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a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero

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Sonnet

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14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter

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Quatrain

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a stanza or poem of four lines

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Couplet

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A pair of lines that rhyme and are of the same length.

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Octave

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a group of eight lines of verse, especially the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italian form.

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Sestet

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the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.

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Elegy, elegiac verse

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a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.

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Turn/Shift

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a change in subject or topic.

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Mock epic/ Mock-heroic

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a long, humorous poem written in mock-heroic style.

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Lyric Verse

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a type of emotional songlike poetry.

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Iambic (unstressed-stressed)

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(iambic): an unstressed stressed foot.

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Trochaic (stressed-unstressed)

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a type of verse that consists of or features trochees. (trochees: a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.)

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Falling meter (trochaic)

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trochaic that moves or falls from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.

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Foot, Feet

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A measured combination of heavy and light stresses.

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Line length (meter)

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the length of the lines is determined by the form chosen to a significant extent

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Dactylic (falling)

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A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. (FLUT-ter-ing or BLUE-ber-ry)

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Scansion/Scanning

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the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.

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Stress/Accent

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give particular emphasis or importance to (a point, statement, or idea) made in speech or writing:

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Blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Free verse

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Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.

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Internal rhyme

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An exact rhyme within a line of poetry: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”

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Alliteration

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The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.

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Assonance

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose. (“I rose and told him of my woe.”)

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Common meter/Ballad stanza/Hymn meter

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a metrical pattern for hymns in which the stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming abcb or abab.

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Continuous form

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the lines are divided by theme, mood or not at all.

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Closed couplet (ends in period)

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a rhyming couplet with end-stopped lines that is logically or grammatically complete.

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Heroic couplet (ends in rhyme)

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a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter.

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Open couplet (continues onto next line)

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a couplet that concludes with a run-on line.

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verse paragraph (prose poetry)

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The literary device verse denotes a single line of poetry. (similar to stanza)

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Double rhyme

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a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed.

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End rhyme

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End rhyme occurs when the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other.

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Full/Perfect/True rhyme

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A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in poems.

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Slant/Near/Partial/Imperfect/Half rhyme

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It can be defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.

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Consonance

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A stylistic device, often used in poetry. It is the repetition of consonant sounds in a short sequence of words. (the “t” sound in “Is it blunt and flat?”)

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Cacophony

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loud confusing disagreeable sounds.

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Euphony

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the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.

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Ballad stanza/Hymn

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Poem written in praise of God and usually sung in Christian worship.

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Octet

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Group of 8.

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Refrain

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Refrain is a verse, a line, a set, or a group of lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections.

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