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Poetic terms to know inverse Flashcards

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Basic rhythmic structure of a verse, made up of feet

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Meter

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Analysis of a poem’s metrical structure

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Scansion

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Most common meter in English poetry- sequence of five iambic fee each consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

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Iambic Pentameter

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The inverse of iambic meter:

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Trochaic Meter

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Words that sound good together (musical)

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Euphony

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Sound that grate, annoy, or create a sense of distaste

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Cacophony

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Imitates the sound it refers to

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Onomatopoeia

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Language that appeals directly to one of the senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, or taste

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Imagery

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When description of 1 kind of sensation produces another

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Synesthesia

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Manner in which something is said; voice the poet projects

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Tone

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Pacing, from slow to fast, and pauses, stops, and starts we perceive as we speak & read the words & lines of a poem

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Rhythm

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12
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Regular sound patterns

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Rhyme

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Most common rhyme- occurs at end of verse lines

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End Rhyme

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The end word rhymes with a word in the middle of the same line or nearby line Ex. (turned the air, prayer)

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Internal rhyme

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Words that look alike but do not sound alike Ex.( blood, food)

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Eye Rhyme

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16
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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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Alliteration

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Repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of words

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Assonance

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A disruption of harmonic sounds or rhythms

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Dissonance

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rhymed or metrical poetry; a line or stanza of such poetry

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Verse

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20
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unrhymed iambic pentameter (still rhythmic)

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Blank Verse

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Avoids pre-established rhyme, stanza pattern, or meter

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Free Verse

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22
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Implied comparison of two unlike things

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Metaphor

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Explicit comparison of two unlike things

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Simile

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(verbal) saying one thing and meaning another

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Irony

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an apparently impossible circumstance, situation or condition (Ex. I feel my flesh of rock)

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Paradox

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Giving a nonbeing the characteristics of a person

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Personification/ Pathetic Fallacy

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play on words that usually depends on a word having several meanings or soundings like another word with a different meaning

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Pun

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When one thing is used in place of something closely related to it – referring to a casino as “the house”

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Metonymy

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Uses part for the whole- “wheels”= car, “hands”= sailors

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Synecdoche

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Overstatement or exaggeration for effect

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Hyperbole

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Understatement that downplays for effect – saying something that was extremely well received “did not go unappreciated” or that WWII was a “pretty little squabble”

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Litotes

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A representation image,event,word, or pattern that stands for something else

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Symbol

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Fixed symbol that definitively represents one other thing– no room for interpretive license(a form of “other speak”)

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Allegory

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A form poem containing 14 lines of iambic pentameter and end rhyme

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Sonnet

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Long irregular poem lyric in nature and exalted in tone– meant to praise and honor its subject

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Ode

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Pair of rhymed lines

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Couplet

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Grouping of three rhymed lines

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Tercet /Triplet

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Group of four rhymed lines

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Quatrain

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Grouping of verse lines in a poem set off by a space break

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Stanza

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Direct and explicit address either to an absent person or to an abstract or inanimate entity

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Apostrophe

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Idea or claim a poem is aiming to expressing

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Theme

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Reference to art, popular culture, or literature

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Allusion

43
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What a word means on a dictionary level

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Denotation

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What a word means on an emotional level

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Connotation

45
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Word choice

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Diction

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One side of a conversation- one voice the reader “hears”

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Dramatic monologue

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Stream-of-consciousness version of dramatic monologue

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Internal dramatic monologue

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Lines of poetry that have a pause at the end, usually indicated by punctuation

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End-stopped lines

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Lines of poetry that force you to read beyond their end into the beginning of the next line

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Run-on lines/ Enjambement

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Pauses or breaks within a line of poetry

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Caesura

51
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Poem that is not set up in recognizable system of individual lines, but rather, in paragraph form

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Prose poem

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(also pattern poem or emblem poem) poem whose shape is reflective of the poem’s subject

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Concrete poem

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An extended figure of speech that establishes an elaborate parallel between two dissimilar things or situations

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Conceit

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The admission of conjunctions (and,but, etc) between parts of a sentence

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Asyndeton

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The use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially when they can be omitted

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Polysyndeton

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