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Poetic Terms Flashcards

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The total experience communicated by a poem

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Total meaning

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Exaggeration is used in the service of truth (hyperbole)

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Overstatement

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Someone absent or dead or nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present

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Apostrophe

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A narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface

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Allegory

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Saying less than one means

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Understatement

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The part of a poem’s total meaning that can be deprecated out and expressed through paraphrase

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Prose meaning

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A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory

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Paradox

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The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words

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Assonance

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A kind of literature the ridicules human filly with the purpose if bringing about reform

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Satire

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Metrical language

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Verse

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The internal organization of content

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Structure

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Any wavelength recurrence of motion or sound

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Rhythm

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The process of measuring metrical verse

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Scansion

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The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words

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Rhyme

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The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. (One accented syllable and one or two I accented syllables

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Foot

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A sonnet with parallel rhyme scheme, three coordinate quatrains, and a couplet. Sometimes has octave and sestet

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English sonnet

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The form taken by a poem written with same number if lines and other characteristics

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Stanzaic form

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A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with one or two main types of rhyme schemes

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Sonnet

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A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes

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Italian sonnet

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A poem of serious reflection. A lament for the dead

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Elegy

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a poem of ten or thirteen lines with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain.

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Rondeau

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A short quotation

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Epigraph

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Four line stanza

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Quatrain

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A six line stanza

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Sestet

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Eight line stanza

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Octave

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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A speech pause occurring in the line

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Caesura

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A smooth pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement

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Euphony

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An ingenuous metaphor

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Conceit

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Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines

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End rhymes

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A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation

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End stopped line

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A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved

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Feminine rhyme

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A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved

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Masculine

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A humorous five line poem with a rhyme scheme

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Limerick

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in which a line is repeated in a changed context or with minor changes in the repeated part

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Incremental refrain

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a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically unaccompanied and arranged in elaborate counterpoint

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Madrigal

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Usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry

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Prose poem

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Quality in a work that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through oversimplification or falsification of reality

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Sentimentally

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The basic definition of a word

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Denotation

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A situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity

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Irony

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Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm

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Poetry

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A kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events that go beyond boundaries of reality

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Fantasy

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The representation through language of sense of experience

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Imagery

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Language that cannot be taken literally or only literally

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Figurative language

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What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition

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Connotation

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A repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines normally at some fixed position

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Refrain

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A group of line whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem

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Stanza

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The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds

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Consonance

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written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

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Prose

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The measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry

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Meter

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A word whose sound by an obscure process suggests it’s meaning

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Phonetic poetry

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A form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition

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Fixed form

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A speech in which a character alone on the stage addresses him it herself

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Soliloquy

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Poetry using artificially eloquent language

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Rhetorical poetry

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Poetry having a primary purpose to teach or preach

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Didactic poetry

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a lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre.

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Ode

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a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line ends in six different sequences.

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Sestina

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A nineteen-line fixed from consisting of five tercets rhymed and a concluding quatrain with lines 1 and 3 are refrains in an alternating pattern through line 15 and repeated as line 18 and 19

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Villanelle

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A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form

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Ballad

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Open form of poetry. Follows the rhythm of natural speech

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Free verse

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A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes

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Approximate rhyme

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a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit

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Closed couplet

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Two successive lines, usually in the same meter linked by rhyme

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Couplet

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A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occurs within the line

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Internal rhyme

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A line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line

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Run-on line

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a poem of eight lines, typically of eight syllables each, rhyming abaaabab and so structured that the first line recurs as the fourth and seventh and the second as the eighth.

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Triolet

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A pair of iambic pentameters

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Heroic couplet

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Into the middle of a narrative

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In medias res

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A hymn or poem

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Psalm

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