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Poetic Devices Flashcards

1
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What is Assonance?

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Repetition of Vowel sounds

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What is Dissonance?

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Deliberate use of inharmonious words, phrases or syllables intended to create harsh sounding effects

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What is Free Verse?

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Poetry that does not rhyme/have set rhythm

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What is an epigraph?

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Short phrase or quotation placed beneath the title at the beginning of the poem that suggests the theme of the poem

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5
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What is arrhythmic?

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Without rhythm or regularity

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What is consonance?

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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7
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What is Hypercatalectic?

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Extra syllable at end of metrically complete verse

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What is Catalectic?

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Lacking one syllable in the last foot

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9
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What are Heroic Couplets?

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Pair of rhyming iambic pentameters (rhyming couplets)

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What is Lineation?

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How the lines are arranged

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What is Antithesis?

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The contrasting of opposites for emphasis

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What is Decasyballic?

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A line of verse containing 10 syllables

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What is an End Stop?

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A line of verse ending with a punctuation mark

Usually concluding meaning or forcing a stoppage in the phrasing

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What is a Haiku?

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Traditional Japanese poetic form
Consists of a still image conveyed through 3 lines
1st and 3rd line= five syllables
2nd line = seven syllables

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What is a homophone?

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Word that sounds identical to another word

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What is Hypersyllabic?

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Including more than usual number of syllables

17
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What is Hyposyllablic?

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Including fewer than usual number of syllables

18
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What is Iambic?

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Traditional British Verse Form

Alternating Unstressed and Stressed Syllables

19
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What is Liminal?

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Marginal, to do with borders or points of transition

20
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What is Metonymy?

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Description of something by focussing on aspects of it

21
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What is Metre?

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Regular Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables within lines of poetry

22
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What is Monosyllabic?

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Words or lines includin only a single syllable

23
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What is a Motif?

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A recurring image or symbol within a text

24
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What is Phonology?

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The use of sounds in writing

25
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What is a Plosive?

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Short, explosive speech-sound eg. ‘b’ , ‘p’ or ‘k’

26
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What is a quatrain?

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A stanza within a poem containing 4 lines

27
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What is a quintain/cinquain?

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A stanza within a poem containing 5 lines

28
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What is a Septet?

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A 7 line stanza

29
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What is a Sestet?

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A 6 line stanza

30
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What is the subtext?

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An underlying meaning

31
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What is a tercet?

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A 3 line stanza

32
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What is a volta?

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A shift within the structure of the poem

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