MIdterm- Poetry Terms

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a group of 2 or 3 syllables fomring the basic unit of poetic rhythm

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foot

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the system for indicating metrical patterns and analyzing their effects

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scansion

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the recurring pattern of sounds that give poems written in verse their distinct rhythms

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meter

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a collective term that describes the technical aspects of verse relating to rhythm, stress and meter

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prosody

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a poem that is spoken by a fictional narrator who is clearly different from the author in age, situation or gender. It is set at some significant point in the speaker’s life and is often addressed to another character. Purpose is for the speaker to reveal significant aspects of his or her qualities values and experiences

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dramatic monologue

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the most varied and widespread kind is that in which an individual speaker expresses what he or she feels, perceives and thinks

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lyric poetry

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a long narrative poem on a serious and exalted subject

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epic poetry

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one foot, usually occurring only as a variant in poems comprised largely of longer lines

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monometer

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2 feet

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dimeter

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3 feet

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trimeter

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4 feet

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tetrameter

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pentameter

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5 feet

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6 feet

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hexameter

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7 feet

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heptameter

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any variant foot within a line that consists predominantly of another metrical pattern

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substitution

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a missing unstressed syllable at the end of a line

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catalexis (catalectic)

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//

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spondee

two stressed syllables in a row

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U /

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iamb (iambic)

an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

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/ U

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trochee (trochaic

one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable

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U U /

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anapest (anapestic)

two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

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/ U U

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dactyl (dactylic)

one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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dactyl (dactylic)

one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

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/ U U

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anapest (anapestic)

two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

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U U /

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trochee (trochaic)

one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable

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/ U

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iamb (iambic) an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

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U /

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Spondee (spondaic) 2 stressed syllables

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/ /

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lines contain a complete sentence or independent clause and so have a distinct pause at the end usually indicated by a mark of punctuation

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end-stopped

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also called run-on lines are those in which the sentence or clause continues for 2 or more lines of verse, no punctuation at ends of these lines

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enjambed (enjambment)

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a pause in the midst of a verse line. the pause is indicted by a mark of punctuation. The effect creates a shift in the rhythmic pattern and therefore shift the focus

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caesura

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the repetition in 2 or more nearby words of the last stressed vowel and all the syllables that follow it

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rhyme

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rhymes that occur within a line of poetry rather than at the end

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internal rhyme

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the pattern of line recurrence

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rhyme scheme

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when the rhyming sounds match exactly

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perfect rhyme

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word looks on the page like perfect rhymes by over time have come to be pronounced differently

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eye rhyme

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does not fulfill the expectation of exactly chiming syllables that perfect rhyme has

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imperfect rhyme/half-rhyme/off rhyme/ slant rhyme

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the repetition of sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables

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alliteration

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a reiterated sound that occurs within a word

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internal alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more successive words or stressed syllables that contain different vowel sounds

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consonance

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the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables

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assonance

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a word or phrase that seems to imitate the sound it denotes

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onomatopoeia

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a group of lines in a poem that share a common pattern of meter, line length, and rhyme

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stanza

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a pair of rhymed lines of the same length and meter

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couplet

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rhymed pairs of lines in Iambic Pentameter

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heroic couplet

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a pair of lines in which the end of the rhyme coincides with the end of the clause or sentence

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closed couplet

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are fluent, with the rhyme not insistent but subtly underlying the meter

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open couplet

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a group of three lines, usually sharing the same rhyme

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tercet/triplet

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the tercets are linked by a pattern of shared rhymes- the 1st and last lines of each stanza rhyme and the middle line rhymes with the 1st and 3rd lines of the following tercets

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terza rima

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a stanza with four lines

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quatrain

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most common iambic. 4 lines- 2 of 8 syllables alternating with 2 or 6

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ballad meter

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ballad meter

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common meter

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a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated at intervals

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refrain

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a lyric poem written in a single stanza that usually consists of 14 lines of iambic pentameter

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sonnet

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3 Quatrains and a final couplet which rhyme abab cdcd efef gg

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English/Shakespearean Sonnet

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opening octave and a concluding sestet rhyme scheme is abba abba but the sestet may vary

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Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet

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a group of 8 lines

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octave

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a group of 6 lines

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sestet

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the resolution of the question/ problem posed

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volta/turn

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unrhymed iambic pentameter containing five feet per lines, each foot consisting of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable

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blank verse

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also called open form verse, is distinguished from traditional versification in that its rhythms are not organized in meter. Most lack rhyme

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free verse