Poem/Prose Form - Wednesday Quiz Flashcards

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Allegory

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Extended metaphor with two meanings

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2
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Intercalary chapters

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Inserted to speak in a general way

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3
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Frame narrative

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A tale within another tale

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4
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Dramatic monologue

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Spoken to the reader/listener

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5
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Spenserian sonnet

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14-line poem written in abab bcbc cdcd ee

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Shakespearean sonnet

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14-line poem written in abab cdcd efef gg

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Petrarchan sonnet

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14-line poem with one octave and one sestet

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8
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Stream of conscience

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Unbroken flow of thought

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9
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Hymn

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Song of praise to God

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10
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Pastoral

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Presenting an idealized imagine of rural life

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11
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Sermon

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Religious or moral talk

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12
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Sestina

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6-line stanzas with a 3-line envoy, repeating six words

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13
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Elegy

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Mournful/reflective poem

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14
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Eulogy

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Praises something or someone

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15
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Soliloquy

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Speaking thoughts aloud to no one

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16
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Lyric

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Short poem of songlike quality

17
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Ode

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Story designed to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson

18
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Satire

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Ridiculing something in order to bring about change

19
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Free verse

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Unrhymed lines with no fixed pattern

20
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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

21
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Haiku

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17 syllables with 5/7/5 break down

22
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Ballad

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Tells a story, often with a refrain/chorus

23
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Grotesque

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Comedy and tragedy mixed

24
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Parable

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Intended to teach a lesson

25
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Didactic

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Highly expressive poem of elaborate/irregular meter

26
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Couplet

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Two rhyming lines

27
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Tercet

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Three rhyming lines

28
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Quatrain

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Four rhyming lines

29
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Quintain

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Five rhyming lines

30
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Sestet

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Six rhyming lines

31
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Septet

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Seven rhyming lines

32
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Octet

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Eight rhyming lines

33
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Villanelle

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19 lines divided into 6 stanzas

34
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Terza rima

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Tercets written with chain rhyme

35
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Prosody

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Study of poetic structure