Poetic Terminology

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Allegory

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A story/poem/picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.
Typically moral/political

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Blank verse

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A poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter

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Imagery

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Visually descriptive/ figurative language

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Meditative poetry

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Combines the religious practice of meditation with verse

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Romanticism

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Poetry of the Romantic era 
1700s 
Great change:
-decline in monarchy 
-more liberty
-medical findings

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Stress

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Emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others

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Metre

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Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person/idea/thing

This is seen less in 20th century poetry

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Conceit

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Kind of metaphor

Compares 2 very unlike things in a surprising clever way

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Ode

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Form of lyric poetry
Not very lengthy
Usually praising something

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Metonymy

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Type of metaphor
Object used to describe something closely relative to it

Eg instead of ‘power of king’
‘The crown’

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem

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Symbolism

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Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them a symbolic meaning that are different for their literal sense

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Archaism

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Means beginning/ancient

Phrase/word considered outdated

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Elegiac

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Sad poem

Usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead

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Loco-descriptive

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Genre of poetry that describes and often praises a landscape/place

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Pentameter

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5 strong metrical feet/beats

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Speaker/persona

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Character taken on by a poet to speak in a first person poem

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Tetrameter

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A line of 4 metrical feet

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Ballad

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A poem/song narrating a story in short stanzas

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Extended metaphor

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Comparison between 2 unlike things

Continues through lines in the poem

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Lyric poetry

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Has musical rhythm

Topics often explore romantic feelings/other strong emotions about

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Personification

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Giving a non human, human characteristics

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Stanza

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Group of set lines in a poem

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Trimeter

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Meter/lines that consists of 3 iambic feet

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Iamb

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UnAccented syllable followed by accented syllable

Eg unite

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Anaphora

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Deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence